Ontosight® – Biweekly NewsletterJune 17th – June 30th, 2024 –Read More
Ontosight® Newsletter Issue 3
NLP
Understanding the Language of Life Sciences
Training algorithms to identify and extract Life Sciences-specific data The English dictionary is full of words and definitions that can be applied to various contexts. The second edition of Oxford dictionary in 1989 recorded 228,132 words, including popularly used words, obsolete words, as well as derivatives. Words are used all over the world to discuss, …
What is Named Entity Recognition?
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an information extraction method of a technology called Natural Language Processing (NLP). It locates entities in an unstructured or semi-structured text. These entities can be various things from a person to something very specific like a biomedical term. For example NER can recognize that “pancreatic cancer” is a disease and …
Why machines need to speak the language of Life Sciences
Do you remember the days when NLP, known as Neuro-Linguistic Programming was all the rage in self-help books and motivational speaking? You remember the self-help gurus preaching the use of Neuro-Linguistic Programming as a method to help you achieve near superpowers to attain your goals by “modelling” the skills of so-called exceptional people. Well, since …
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