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Experimental results on the BioCreative VI Bio-ID corpus show that our proposed knowledge-enhanced system achieves 0.871\u2009<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>1-score for PNER and 0.445\u2009<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>1-score for PNEN, respectively, leading to a new state-of-the-art performance.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>We propose a knowledge-enhanced system that combines both entity knowledge and deep contextualized word representations. 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