In Sequential Viterbi Models, such as HMMs, MEMMs, and Linear Chain CRFs, the type of patterns over output sequences that can be learned by the model depend directly on the modelâ...
We describe a novel semi-supervised method called WordCodebook Learning (WCL), and apply it to the task of bionamed entity recognition (bioNER). Typical bioNER systems can be seen...
An important problem in the area of homeland security is to identify abnormal or suspicious entities in large datasets. Although there are methods from data mining and social netwo...
In task 1A of the BioCreAtIvE evaluation, systems had to be devised that recognize words and phrases forming gene or protein names in natural language sentences. We approach this ...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...