Applying citizen science to gene, drug and disease relationship extraction from biomedical abstracts.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Biomedical literature is growing at a rate that outpaces our ability to harness the knowledge contained therein. To mine valuable inferences from the large volume of literature, many researchers use information extraction algorithms to harvest information in biomedical texts. Information extraction is usually accomplished via a combination of manual expert curation and computational methods. Advances in computational methods usually depend on the time-consuming generation of gold standards by a limited number of expert curators. Citizen science is public participation in scientific research. We previously found that citizen scientists are willing and capable of performing named entity recognition of disease mentions in biomedical abstracts, but did not know if this was t

SUBMITTER: Tsueng G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8104067 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature