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In recent years, a number of machine learning approaches to literature-based gene function annotation have been proposed. However, due to issues such as lack of labeled data, class imbalance and computational cost, they have usually been unable to surpass simpler approaches based on string-matching. In this paper, we investigate the use of semantic kernels as a way to address the task’s inherent data scarcity and we propose a simple yet effective solution to deal with class imbalance. From experiments on the TREC Genomics Track data, our approach achieves better F 1-score than two state-of-the-art approaches based on string-matching and cross-species information.
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Blondel, M., Seki, K., Uehara, K. (2011). Application of Semantic Kernels to Literature-Based Gene Function Annotation. In: Elomaa, T., Hollmén, J., Mannila, H. (eds) Discovery Science. DS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6926. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24477-3_8
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