Biomedical named entity recognition (BNER) has been actively studied over the years, and several BNER systems have become publicly available. In this study, we investigate the utility of a simple voting method called at-least-n voting to improve gene name recognition, which takes advantage of the availability of BNER systems in the domain. We found this voting scheme is effective in combining B...

We present two methods for learning the structure of personal names from unlabeled data. The first simply uses a few implicit constraints governing this structure to gain a toehold on the problem — e.g., descriptors come before first names, which come before middle names, etc. The second model also uses possible coreference information. We found that coreference constraints on names improve the...

During the course of screening for new antibiotics from rare actinomycetes in our laboratory, a rare actinomycete initially designated as strain A-3416 was found to produce an antibiotic with strong activity against staphylococci resistant to various antibiotics. From its unique physicochemical properties, it was judged to be a new antibiotic and named antibiotic AB-64. In this paper, taxonomic...

Ebola virus is named after the river in the former Zaire where a haemorrhagic fever initially identified in 1976 involved human to human transmission, as well as spread by contaminated injection equipments [1]. Ebola virus causes an acute febrile illness associated with a high mortality rate. The illness is characterized by multi-system involvement that begins with abrupt onset of headache, mya...

We describe a simple approach to named-entity recognition (NER), aimed initially at the Dutch language, but potentially applicable to other languages. Our NER system employs a two-stage architecture, with handcrafted but dataset-independent features for both stages, and is on a par with state-of-the-art systems described in the literature. Notably, our approach does not depend on language-speci...

of African origin, including elephants, hyraxes, dugongs and manatees, elephant shrews, and aardvarks. Initially greeted with deep skepticism, if not outright disbelief, this assemblage — named Afrotheria — and its shared evolutionary history is now widely accepted, and an overwhelming amount of genomic data as well as numerous other lines of supportive evidence have since been adduced. Long re...

Andersen-Tawil syndrome (ATS) is one of the periodic paralyses. This autosomal dominant disorder was initially named after Andersen, who in 1971 reported the case of a young boy presenting with intermittent muscle weakness, ventricular arrhythmias, and other developmental abnormalities. It was subsequently renamed Andersen-Tawil syndrome following the additional work of Dr. Rabi Tawil. Periodic...