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Vast amounts of biomedical scientific information and knowledge are recorded in text [1,7]. Various scientific textual data in the biomedical domain may generally be disseminated through the following resources [7,11]: biomedical literature (e.g., original reports and summaries of research in journals, books, reports, and guidelines), biological databases (e.g., annotations in gene/protein databases), patient records (e.g., clinical narrative reports), and web content.
A variety of techniques have been applied to identify, extract, manage, integrate and exploit knowledge from biomedical text. Some researchers [11] divide biomedical scientific textual data processing into three major activities as shown in Figure 1...
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Zhou, L., Xu, H. (2009). Biomedical Scientific Textual Data Types and Processing. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_495
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