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Table 1 Examples of candidates of some biomedical entity mentions generated by the rules in the three categories

From: CNN-based ranking for biomedical entity normalization

Category

Rule in [7]

Example

  

Mention

Candidate

Exact-Match(CI)

Dictionary-based

Coronary artery disease

Coronary artery disease

Exact-Match II (CII)

Abbreviation expansion

“Sch” in “Suxamethonium chloride (Sch)”

Suxamethonium chloride

 

Subject Object

Weight gain

Gain weight

 

Numbers replacement

Vitamin b2

Vitamin b ii

 

Hyphenation

5-hydroxytriptamine

5 hydroxytriptamine

 

Suffixation

Hypotensive

Hypotension

 

Synonyms

Renal cell carcinoma

Renal cell cancer

 

Stemming

Hypotensive

{Hypotension, Hypotensin}

 

Composite

Optic and peripheral neuropathy

{Optic neuropathy, Peripheral neuropathy}

Partial-Match (CIII)

Partial match

Cardiac injury

{Cardiac arrest, Cardiac disorders, , Renal injury}