A text-mining technique for extracting gene-disease associations from the biomedical literature.

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We propose a new text mining technique to identify associations between biological entities, specifically genes-diseases associations, from the biomedical literature. The proposed method is very simple and straightforward; it uses two sets (a positive set and a negative set) of documents and utilises the concepts of expectation (ex), evidence (ev), and Z-scores in combining positive and negative evidences in...

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