A Biomedical Information Extraction Primer for NLP Researchers

Biomedical Information Extraction is an exciting field at the crossroads of Natural Language Processing, Biology and Medicine. It encompasses a variety of different tasks that require application of state-of-the-art NLP techniques, such as NER and Relation Extraction. This paper provides an overview of the problems in the field and discusses some of the techniques used for solving them.

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