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ArticleDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2016

BELTracker: evidence sentence retrieval for BEL statements.

Majid Rastegar-Mojarad, Ravikumar Komandur Elayavilli, Hongfang Liu

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Article in Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Majid Rastegar-MojaradDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, USA University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA mojarad.majid@mayo.edu.
Ravikumar Komandur ElayavilliDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, USA.
Hongfang LiuDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, USA.

Funding

Semi-structured Information Retrieval in Clinical Text for Cohort IdentificationR01LM011934 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI HERSH, WILLIAM R, LIU, HONGFANG · 2014 to 2025
$5.1M
Methods for generalized ontology terms enrichment analysisR01LM011369 · NLM · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI SHAH, NIGAM H · 2013 to 2020
$5.0M
Natural language processing for clinical and translational researchR01GM102282 · NIGMS · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI LIU, HONGFANG, PAKHOMOV, SERGUEI VS · 2013 to 2016
$2.5M
Patient Medical History Representation, Extraction, and Inference from EHR DataR01LM011829 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI TAO, CUI · 2014 to 2018
$1.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM102282NLM NIH HHS R01 LM011934NLM NIH HHS R01LM11369NLM NIH HHS R01LM11829NLM NIH HHS R01LM11934
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological expression language (BEL) is one of the main formal representation models of biological networks. The primary source of information for curating biological networks in BEL representation has been literature. It remains a challenge to identify relevant articles and the corresponding evidence statements for curating and validating BEL statements. In this paper, we describe BELTracker, a tool used to retrieve and rank evidence sentences from PubMed abstracts and full-text articles for a given BEL statement (per the 2015 task requirements of BioCreative V BEL Task). The system is comprised of three main components, (i) translation of a given BEL statement to an information retrieval (IR) query, (ii) retrieval of relevant PubMed citations and (iii) finding and ranking the evidence sentences in those citations. BELTracker uses a combination of multiple approaches based on traditional IR, machine learning, and heuristics to accomplish the task. The system identified and ranked at least one fully relevant evidence sentence in the top 10 retrieved sentences for 72 out of 97 BEL statements in the test set. BELTracker achieved a precision of 0.392, 0.532 and 0.615 when evaluated with three criteria, namely full, relaxed and context criteria, respectively, by the task organizers. Our team at Mayo Clinic was the only participant in this task. BELTracker is available as a RESTful API and is available for public use.Database URL: http://www.openbionlp.org:8080/BelTracker/finder/Given_BEL_Statement.

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PMID27173525
PMCPMC4865361

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