Methods and systems for automatically identifying gene/protein terms in medline abstracts

摘要

The present invention provides computerized methods and systems for mapping biological abbreviations with biological names by processing a document that includes at least one biological abbreviation in order to identify a parenthetical expression and a phrase preceding the parenthetical expression, which are generally used as candidate abbreviations and candidate full forms of the biological abbreviations, detecting a biological abbreviation contained in the parenthetical expression or the phrase preceding the parenthetical expression, and determining whether the parenthetical expression or the phrase preceding the parenthetical expression contains a full form of the detected biological abbreviation based on a plurality of pattern matching rules designed for mapping abbreviations to their full forms.