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There exist many tools to annotate mentions of medical entities in documents with concepts from biomedical ontologies. To improve the overall quality of the annotation process, we propose the use of machine learning to combine the results of different annotation tools. We comparatively evaluate the results of the machine-learning based approach with the results of the single tools and a simpler set-based result combination.
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Christen, V. et al. (2019). A Learning-Based Approach to Combine Medical Annotation Results. In: Auer, S., Vidal, ME. (eds) Data Integration in the Life Sciences. DILS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11371. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06016-9_13
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