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20122023
most citedA Silver Standard Corpus of Human Phenotype-Gene Relations

24 citations · 77 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2023

LASIGE and UNICAGE solution to the NASA LitCoin NLP Competition

Pedro Ruas, Diana F. Sousa, André Neves +2

Biomedical Natural Language Processing (NLP) tends to become cumbersome for most researchers, frequently due to the amount and heterogeneity of text to be processed. To address thi…

cs.IR2020★ 14 cited

Generating Biomedical Question Answering Corpora from Q&A forums

Andre Lamurias, Diana Sousa, Francisco M. Couto

Question Answering (QA) is a natural language processing task that aims at obtaining relevant answers to user questions. While some progress has been made in this area, biomedical…

cs.IR2020

Hybrid Semantic Recommender System for Chemical Compounds

Marcia Barros, André Moitinho, Francisco M. Couto

Recommending Chemical Compounds of interest to a particular researcher is a poorly explored field. The few existent datasets with information about the preferences of the researche…

cs.IR2020★ 12 cited

BiOnt: Deep Learning using Multiple Biomedical Ontologies for Relation Extraction

Diana Sousa, Francisco M. Couto

Successful biomedical relation extraction can provide evidence to researchers and clinicians about possible unknown associations between biomedical entities, advancing the current…

cs.CL2019★ 15 cited

Using Neural Networks for Relation Extraction from Biomedical Literature

Diana Sousa, Andre Lamurias, Francisco M. Couto

Using different sources of information to support automated extracting of relations between biomedical concepts contributes to the development of our understanding of biological sy…

cs.CL2019★ 24 cited

A Silver Standard Corpus of Human Phenotype-Gene Relations

Diana Sousa, Andre Lamurias, Francisco M. Couto

Human phenotype-gene relations are fundamental to fully understand the origin of some phenotypic abnormalities and their associated diseases. Biomedical literature is the most comp…

cs.CL2017

MRA - Proof of Concept of a Multilingual Report Annotator Web Application

Luís Campos, Francisco Couto

MRA (Multilingual Report Annotator) is a web application that translates Radiology text and annotates it with RadLex terms. Its goal is to explore the solution of translating non-E…

cs.CL2016★ 4 cited

WS4A: a Biomedical Question and Answering System based on public Web Services and Ontologies

Miguel J. Rodrigues, Miguel Falé, Andre Lamurias +1

This paper describes our system, dubbed WS4A (Web Services for All), that participated in the fourth edition of the BioASQ challenge (2016). We used WS4A to perform the Question an…

cs.DL2016

Knowledge Ratings in MetaboLights

Camila Ramos, Marco Louro, Miguel Santos +1

This technical report presents an evaluation of the ontology annotations in the metadata of a subset of entries of MetaboLights, a database for Metabolomics experiments and derived…

stat.OT2014

Using Google Scholar to predict self citation: A case study in Health Economics

Richard Norman, Francisco M Couto

Metrics designed to quantify the influence of academics are increasingly used and easily estimable, and perhaps the most popular is the h index. Metrics such as this are however po…

cs.DL2013

CIDS country rankings: comparing documents and citations of USA, UK and China top researchers

Francisco M Couto

This technical report presents a bibliometric analysis of the top 30 cited researchers from USA, UK and China. The analysis is based on Google Scholar data using CIDS. The research…

cs.AI2013★ 5 cited

Ontology alignment repair through modularization and confidence-based heuristics

Emanuel Santos, Daniel Faria, Cátia Pesquita +1

Ontology Matching aims to find a set of semantic correspondences, called an alignment, between related ontologies. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in efficient a…

cs.DL2013★ 1 cited

Benchmarking some Portuguese S&T system research units: 2nd Edition

Francisco M Couto, Daniel Faria, Bruno Tavares +2

The increasing use of productivity and impact metrics for evaluation and comparison, not only of individual researchers but also of institutions, universities and even countries, h…

cs.IR2012★ 2 cited

Testing the AgreementMaker System in the Anatomy Task of OAEI 2012

Daniel Faria, Catia Pesquita, Emanuel Santos +3

The AgreementMaker system was the leading system in the anatomy task of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) competition in 2011. While AgreementMaker did not compet…