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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2023

An analysis of entity normalization evaluation biases in specialized domains.

Arnaud Ferré, Philippe Langlais

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Arnaud FerréMaIAGE, INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France. arnaud.ferre@inrae.fr.
Philippe LanglaisRALI, DIRO, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.

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Abstract

backgroundEntity normalization is an important information extraction task which has recently gained attention, particularly in the clinical/biomedical and life science domains. On several datasets, state-of-the-art methods perform rather well on popular benchmarks. Yet, we argue that the task is far from resolved.

resultsWe have selected two gold standard corpora and two state-of-the-art methods to highlight some evaluation biases. We present non-exhaustive initial findings on the existence of evaluation problems of the entity normalization task.

conclusionsOur analysis suggests better evaluation practices to support the methodological research in this field.

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Biological Science DisciplinesInformation Storage and RetrievalBiasNatural Language ProcessingResearch DesignAblation studyCorpusDatasetEntity normalizationEvaluation

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PMID37268890
PMCPMC10236701

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