An approach to protein name extraction using heuristics and a dictionary

This paper proposes a method for protein name extraction from biological texts. Our method exploits hand‐crafted rules based on heuristics and a set of protein names (dictionary). In contrast to previously proposed methods, our approach avoids the use of natural language processing tools such as part‐of‐speech taggers and syntactic parsers so as to improve processing speed. We implemented a prototype system for protein name extraction based on our method and conducted evaluation experiments. The result showed that our system produces outcome comparable to the state‐of‐the‐art protein name extraction system on multiple corpora.