The overwhelming amount of published literature in the biomedical domain and the growing
number of collaborations across scientific disciplines results in an increasing topical …

Through the past years, an incredible increase in the biomedical data amount presented on
the web is enlarged due to the increased data volume in the medical and biological …

The extensive use of semantic annotations in the medical domain to enhance information
retrieval or encode clinical notes to improving information reuse and sharing demands for …

The increasing interest of the biomedical community in ontologies can be exemplified by the
availability of hundreds of biomedical ontologies and controlled vocabularies, and by the …

The increasing amount of biomedical scientific literature published on the Web is
demanding new tools and methods to automatically process and extract relevant …

In this thesis we investigate the possibility to integrate domain-specific knowledge into
biomedical information retrieval (IR). Recent decades have shown a fast growing interest in …

The biomedical literature represents a rich source of biomarker information. However, both
the size of literature databases and their lack of standardization hamper the automatic …

Bio-medical knowledge bases are valuable resources for the research community. Original
scientific publications are the main source used to annotate them. Medical annotation in …

Biomedical knowledge is to a very large extent represented only in textual form. To make
this knowledge accessible to humans and/or further automatic processing, text mining …

Understanding complex biological phenomena involves answering complex biomedical
questions on multiple biomolecular information simultaneously, which are expressed …