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Automatic term recognition (ATR) refers to the automatic extraction of technical terms from domain-specific texts. It additionally encompasses the assignment of semantic categories of the extracted terms and mapping of them to concepts contained within terminological or ontological resources.
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The Need for Term Recognition
With an overwhelming number of textual resources becoming available in biomedicine, there is an increased interest in text mining techniques that can identify, extract, manage, and exploit biomedical knowledge hidden in the literature (Ananiadou and McNaught 2006). In systems biology, terms are the backbone of such knowledge, since they constitute the linguistic realization of specialized concepts in the biology domain. As the main purpose of terms is to classify scientific knowledge, they are used as a means of scientific communication to convey biological concepts. Once extracted, they can...
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Ananiadou, S. (2013). Automated Term Recognition. In: Dubitzky, W., Wolkenhauer, O., Cho, KH., Yokota, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9863-7_135
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