| Challenge: | CRAFT shared task 2019: concept recognition using named entity recognition and normalization . a biLSTM-based network and a transformer system were used to tackle both tasks in a single model . |
| Approach: | They propose two different neural approaches to concept recognition . they propose a BiLSTM-based network and a bioBERT-based system for NER and normalization . |
| Outcome: | The proposed systems model the task as a sequence labeling problem. |
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