NetiNeti : Discovery of Scientific Names from Text Using Machine Learning Methods Figure 1
NetiNeti : Discovery of Scientific Names from Text Using Machine Learning Methods Figure 1
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2011-12-30
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Akella, Lakshmi Manohar
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10.1575/1912/4965
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Naïve Bayes classifier, training experiments
Abstract
A scientific name for an organism can be associated with almost all biological data.
Name identification is an important step in many text mining tasks aiming to extract
useful information from biological, biomedical and biodiversity text sources. A
scientific name acts as an important metadata element to link biological information.We present NetiNeti, a machine learning based approach for identification and
discovery of scientific names. The system implementing the approach can be accessed
at http://namefinding.ubio.org we present the comparison results of various machine
learning algorithms on our annotated corpus. Naïve Bayes and Maximum Entropy
with Generalized Iterative Scaling (GIS) parameter estimation are the top two
performing algorithms.
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Figure 1 demonstrates a series of training experiments with the Naïve Bayes classifier using different neighborhoods for contextual features, different sizes of positive and
negative training examples and evaluated the resulting classifiers with our annotated
gold standard corpus.
The data sets are the results of running NetiNeti on subset of 136 PubMedCentral tagged open access articles and with no stop list.