The amount of information preserved in Portuguese archives has increased over the years. These documents represent a national heritage high importance, as they portray country’s history. Currently, most have made their finding aids available to public digital format, however, these data do not any annotation, so it is always easy analyze content. In this work, Named Entity Recognition solutions...

As more and more Arabic textual information becomes available through the Web in homes and businesses, via Internet and Intranet services, there is an urgent need for technologies and tools to process the relevant information. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an Information Extraction task that has become an integral part of many other Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as Machine T...

This paper proposes a named entity recognition (NER) method for speech recognition results that uses confidence on automatic speech recognition (ASR) as a feature. The ASR confidence feature indicates whether each word has been correctly recognized. The NER model is trained using ASR results with named entity (NE) labels as well as the corresponding transcriptions with NE labels. In experiments...

We analyze some of the fundamental design challenges and misconceptions that underlie the development of an efficient and robust NER system. In particular, we address issues such as the representation of text chunks, the inference approach needed to combine local NER decisions, the sources of prior knowledge and how to use them within an NER system. In the process of comparing several solutions...

Binding of purified phage Mu Ner protein to a series of DNA fragments was investigated in order to determine the length requirements for tight specific binding. Gel retardation experiments with wild-type 307 base pair (bp) Mu DNA and shorter, synthetic oligonucleotides were performed, and apparent dissociation constants (KappD) were determined from the half-saturation point. While Ner formed fo...

As more and Arabic texts emerged on the Internet, extracting important information from these is especially useful. a fundamental technology, Named entity recognition (NER) serves as core component in extraction while also playing critical role many other Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems, such question answering knowledge graph building. In this paper, we provide comprehensive review o...

The nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway is a highly conserved and remarkably versatile DNA repair pathway that functions to identify and repair bulky intrastrand DNA crosslinks generated by a variety of genotoxic agents including platinum drugs. Platinum analogs are active anticancer agents and constitute the backbone of first-line chemotherapy used in a number of epithelial malignancies. ...

Platinum and PARP inhibitor (PARPi) sensitivity commonly coexist in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) due to the high prevalence of alterations in the homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair pathway that confer sensitivity to both drugs. In this report, we describe a unique subset of EOC with alterations in another DNA repair pathway, the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway, which may exhib...

The rates at which lesions are removed by DNA repair can vary widely throughout the genome, with important implications for genomic stability. To study this, we measured the distribution of nucleotide excision repair (NER) rates for UV-induced lesions throughout the budding yeast genome. By plotting these repair rates in relation to genes and their associated flanking sequences, we reveal that,...

Nucleotide excision repair (NER) removes many different types of DNA lesions. Most NER proteins are indispensable for repair. In contrast, the yeast Rad23 represents a class of accessory NER proteins, without which NER activity is reduced but not eliminated. In mammals, the complex of HR23B (Rad23 homolog) and XPC (yeast Rad4 homolog) has been suggested to function in the damage recognition ste...