Quantifying the impact and extent of undocumented biomedical synonymy.

Synonymous relationships among biomedical terms are extensively annotated within specialized terminologies, implying that synonymy is important for practical computational applications within this field. It remains unclear, however, whether text mining actually benefits from documented synonymy and...

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Main Authors: David R Blair, Kanix Wang, Svetlozar Nestorov, James A Evans, Andrey Rzhetsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-09-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4177665?pdf=render