Lexical Adaptation of Link Grammar to the Biomedical Sublanguage: a Comparative Evaluation of Three Approaches
<|reference_start|>Lexical Adaptation of Link Grammar to the Biomedical Sublanguage: a Comparative Evaluation of Three Approaches: We study the adaptation of Link Grammar Parser to the biomedical sublanguage with a focus on domain terms not found in a general parser lexicon. Using two biomedical corpora, we implement and evaluate three approaches to addressing unknown words: automatic lexicon expansion, the use of morphological clues, and disambiguation using a part-of-speech tagger. We evaluate each approach separately for its effect on parsing performance and consider combinations of these approaches. In addition to a 45% increase in parsing efficiency, we find that the best approach, incorporating information from a domain part-of-speech tagger, offers a statistically signicant 10% relative decrease in error. The adapted parser is available under an open-source license at http://www.it.utu.fi/biolg.<|reference_end|>
@article{pyysalo2006lexical,
    title={Lexical Adaptation of Link Grammar to the Biomedical Sublanguage: a
  Comparative Evaluation of Three Approaches},
    author={Sampo Pyysalo, Tapio Salakoski, Sophie Aubin (LIPN), Adeline Nazarenko
  (LIPN)},
    journal={Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Semantic
  Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM 2006) (2006) 60-67},
    year={2006},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0606119},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.IR}
}