scholarly journals Learning adaptive representations for entity recognition in the biomedical domain

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivano Lauriola ◽  
Fabio Aiolli ◽  
Alberto Lavelli ◽  
Fabio Rinaldi
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Hybrid Architecture ◽  
Biomedical Domain ◽  
Word Embeddings

Abstract Background Named Entity Recognition is a common task in Natural Language Processing applications, whose purpose is to recognize named entities in textual documents. Several systems exist to solve this task in the biomedical domain, based on Natural Language Processing techniques and Machine Learning algorithms. A crucial step of these applications is the choice of the representation which describes data. Several representations have been proposed in the literature, some of which are based on a strong knowledge of the domain, and they consist of features manually defined by domain experts. Usually, these representations describe the problem well, but they require a lot of human effort and annotated data. On the other hand, general-purpose representations like word-embeddings do not require human domain knowledge, but they could be too general for a specific task. Results This paper investigates methods to learn the best representation from data directly, by combining several knowledge-based representations and word embeddings. Two mechanisms have been considered to perform the combination, which are neural networks and Multiple Kernel Learning. To this end, we use a hybrid architecture for biomedical entity recognition which integrates dictionary look-up (also known as gazetteers) with machine learning techniques. Results on the CRAFT corpus clearly show the benefits of the proposed algorithm in terms of F1 score. Conclusions Our experiments show that the principled combination of general, domain specific, word-, and character-level representations improves the performance of entity recognition. We also discussed the contribution of each representation in the final solution.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques for Spam Detection

2021 ◽  
pp. 657-661
Author(s):  
Rashida Ali ◽  
Ibrahim Rampurawala ◽  
Mayuri Wandhe ◽  
Ruchika Shrikhande ◽  
Arpita Bhatkar
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Spam Detection ◽  
Learning Techniques

Internet provides a medium to connect with individuals of similar or different interests creating a hub. Since a huge hub participates on these platforms, the user can receive a high volume of messages from different individuals creating a chaos and unwanted messages. These messages sometimes contain a true information and sometimes false, which leads to a state of confusion in the minds of the users and leads to first step towards spam messaging. Spam messages means an irrelevant and unsolicited message sent by a known/unknown user which may lead to a sense of insecurity among users. In this paper, the different machine learning algorithms were trained and tested with natural language processing (NLP) to classify whether the messages are spam or ham.

Natural language processing and machine learning as practical toolsets for archival processing

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-174
Author(s):  
Tim Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Archival Processing

Purpose This study aims to provide an overview of recent efforts relating to natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning applied to archival processing, particularly appraisal and sensitivity reviews, and propose functional requirements and workflow considerations for transitioning from experimental to operational use of these tools. Design/methodology/approach The paper has four main sections. 1) A short overview of the NLP and machine learning concepts referenced in the paper. 2) A review of the literature reporting on NLP and machine learning applied to archival processes. 3) An overview and commentary on key existing and developing tools that use NLP or machine learning techniques for archives. 4) This review and analysis will inform a discussion of functional requirements and workflow considerations for NLP and machine learning tools for archival processing. Findings Applications for processing e-mail have received the most attention so far, although most initiatives have been experimental or project based. It now seems feasible to branch out to develop more generalized tools for born-digital, unstructured records. Effective NLP and machine learning tools for archival processing should be usable, interoperable, flexible, iterative and configurable. Originality/value Most implementations of NLP for archives have been experimental or project based. The main exception that has moved into production is ePADD, which includes robust NLP features through its named entity recognition module. This paper takes a broader view, assessing the prospects and possible directions for integrating NLP tools and techniques into archival workflows.

scholarly journals Grammatical categories determination for Turkish and Kazakh languages based on machine learning algorithms and fulfilling dictionaries of link grammar parser

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2 (113)) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Aigerim Yerimbetova ◽  
Madina Tussupova ◽  
Madina Sambetbayeva ◽  
Mussa Turdalyuly ◽  
Bakzhan Sakenov
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Grammatical Categories ◽  
Learning Techniques

This research is aimed at identifying the parts of speech for the Kazakh and Turkish languages in an information retrieval system. The proposed algorithms are based on machine learning techniques. In this paper, we consider the binary classification of words according to parts of speech. We decided to take the most popular machine learning algorithms. In this paper, the following approaches and well-known machine learning algorithms are studied and considered. We defined 7 dictionaries and tagged 135 million words in Kazakh and 9 dictionaries and 50 million words in the Turkish language. The main problem considered in the paper is to create algorithms for the execution of dictionaries of the so-called Link Grammar Parser (LGP) system, in particular for the Kazakh and Turkish languages, using machine learning techniques. The focus of the research is on the review and comparison of machine learning algorithms and methods that have accomplished results on various natural language processing tasks such as grammatical categories determination. For the operation of the LGP system, a dictionary is created in which a connector for each word is indicated – the type of connection that can be created using this word. The authors considered methods of filling in LGP dictionaries using machine learning.  The complexities of natural language processing, however, do not exclude the possibility of identifying narrower tasks that can already be solved algorithmically: for example, determining parts of speech or splitting texts into logical groups. However, some features of natural languages significantly reduce the effectiveness of these solutions. Thus, taking into account all word forms for each word in the Kazakh and Turkish languages increases the complexity of text processing by an order of magnitude

scholarly journals Obtaining Knowledge in Pathology Reports Through a Natural Language Processing Approach With Classification, Named-Entity Recognition, and Relation-Extraction Heuristics

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Oliwa ◽  
Steven B. Maron ◽  
Leah M. Chase ◽  
Samantha Lomnicki ◽  
Daniel V.T. Catenacci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Pathology Reports

PURPOSE Robust institutional tumor banks depend on continuous sample curation or else subsequent biopsy or resection specimens are overlooked after initial enrollment. Curation automation is hindered by semistructured free-text clinical pathology notes, which complicate data abstraction. Our motivation is to develop a natural language processing method that dynamically identifies existing pathology specimen elements necessary for locating specimens for future use in a manner that can be re-implemented by other institutions. PATIENTS AND METHODS Pathology reports from patients with gastroesophageal cancer enrolled in The University of Chicago GI oncology tumor bank were used to train and validate a novel composite natural language processing-based pipeline with a supervised machine learning classification step to separate notes into internal (primary review) and external (consultation) reports; a named-entity recognition step to obtain label (accession number), location, date, and sublabels (block identifiers); and a results proofreading step. RESULTS We analyzed 188 pathology reports, including 82 internal reports and 106 external consult reports, and successfully extracted named entities grouped as sample information (label, date, location). Our approach identified up to 24 additional unique samples in external consult notes that could have been overlooked. Our classification model obtained 100% accuracy on the basis of 10-fold cross-validation. Precision, recall, and F1 for class-specific named-entity recognition models show strong performance. CONCLUSION Through a combination of natural language processing and machine learning, we devised a re-implementable and automated approach that can accurately extract specimen attributes from semistructured pathology notes to dynamically populate a tumor registry.

Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing

2010 ◽  
pp. 302-324
Author(s):  
Marina Sokolova ◽  
Stan Szpakowicz
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Text Processing ◽  
Word Sense Disambiguation ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Word Sense ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Applications Of Machine Learning

This chapter presents applications of machine learning techniques to traditional problems in natural language processing, including part-of-speech tagging, entity recognition and word-sense disambiguation. People usually solve such problems without difficulty or at least do a very good job. Linguistics may suggest labour-intensive ways of manually constructing rule-based systems. It is, however, the easy availability of large collections of texts that has made machine learning a method of choice for processing volumes of data well above the human capacity. One of the main purposes of text processing is all manner of information extraction and knowledge extraction from such large text. Machine learning methods discussed in this chapter have stimulated wide-ranging research in natural language processing and helped build applications with serious deployment potential.

scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data of World Cup Soccer Tournament Using Machine Learning

IoT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravikumar Patel ◽  
Kalpdrum Passi
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
Processing Techniques

In the derived approach, an analysis is performed on Twitter data for World Cup soccer 2014 held in Brazil to detect the sentiment of the people throughout the world using machine learning techniques. By filtering and analyzing the data using natural language processing techniques, sentiment polarity was calculated based on the emotion words detected in the user tweets. The dataset is normalized to be used by machine learning algorithms and prepared using natural language processing techniques like word tokenization, stemming and lemmatization, part-of-speech (POS) tagger, name entity recognition (NER), and parser to extract emotions for the textual data from each tweet. This approach is implemented using Python programming language and Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK). A derived algorithm extracts emotional words using WordNet with its POS (part-of-speech) for the word in a sentence that has a meaning in the current context, and is assigned sentiment polarity using the SentiWordNet dictionary or using a lexicon-based method. The resultant polarity assigned is further analyzed using naïve Bayes, support vector machine (SVM), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), and random forest machine learning algorithms and visualized on the Weka platform. Naïve Bayes gives the best accuracy of 88.17% whereas random forest gives the best area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) of 0.97.

scholarly journals Computerized Answer Grading

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 618-619
Author(s):  
Anurag Langan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Grade Student ◽  
Processing Techniques

Grading student answers is a tedious and time-consuming task. A study had found that almost on average around 25% of a teacher's time is spent in scoring the answer sheets of students. This time could be utilized in much better ways if computer technology could be used to score answers. This system will aim to grade student answers using the various Natural Language processing techniques and Machine Learning algorithms available today.

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