Background Biomedical literature is expanding rapidly, and tools that help locate information
of interest are needed. To this end, a multitude of different approaches for classifying …

Electronic health record (EHR) is a digital data format that collects electronic health
information about an individual patient or population. To enhance the meaningful use of …

Linear text segmentation plays an important role in many natural language processing tasks.
Many algorithms have been proposed and shown to improve the performance of linear text …

Research claims in the biomedical domain are not always consistent, and may even be
contradictory. This thesis explores contradictions between research claims in order to …

Relevant information extraction is a dire need of the scholarly community. There are a
number of systems available to find relevant information from scientific literature such as …

Background Many practical tasks in biomedicine require accessing specific types of
information in scientific literature; eg information about the results or conclusions of the study …

Biomarkers are biomolecules in the human body that can indicate disease states and
abnormal biological processes. Biomarkers are often used during clinical trials to identify …

Given a set of abstracts retrieved from a search engine such as Pubmed, we aim to
automatically identify the claim zone in each abstract and then select the best sentence (s) …

Many cell-based research studies require the counting of cells in order to understand and
validate experiments through statistical analyses. Although progress in imaging technology …

Elsevier is the world's largest scientific publishing company. It owns a database named
Scopus that stores a multitude of scientific papers, books and manuscripts. Besides scientific …