Constructing a Dictionary of Biological Terms for Information Extraction

Yasunori Yamamoto (yas@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Yoshihiro Ohta (yoh@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Ikuo Uchiyama (uchiyama@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Toshihisa Takagi (takagi@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

Human Genome Center
Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo,
4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minatoku, Tokyo 108 Japan

Abstract

In information extraction (IE) systems a keyword dictionary which is a kind of knowledge base on domain specific information is very important. We are developing technologies that construct a keyword dictionary for IE.