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In natural language processing, there have been rigorous attempts to find meaningful relationships between entities automatically by co-occurrence-based methods. It has been increasingly important to understand whether relationships exist, and if so how strong, between any two entities extracted from a large number of texts. One of the defining methods is to measure semantic similarity and relatedness between two entities.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We propose a hybrid ranking method that combines a co-occurrence approach considering both direct and indirect entity pair relationship with specialized word embeddings for measuring the relatedness of two entities.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We evaluate the proposed ranking method comparatively with other well-known methods such as co-occurrence, Word2Vec, COALS (Correlated Occurrence Analog to Lexical Semantics), and random indexing by calculating top-ranked entities related to Alzheimer\u2019s disease. In addition, we analyze gene, pathway, and gene\u2013phenotype relationships. Overall, the proposed method tends to find more hidden relationships than the other methods.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Our proposed method is able to select more useful related entities that not only highly co-occur but also have more indirect relations for the target entity. In pathway analysis, our proposed method shows superior performance at identifying (functional) cross clustering and higher-level pathways. Our proposed method, resulting from phenotype analysis, has an advantage in identifying the common genotype relating to phenotypes from biological literature.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12911-019-0934-5","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,5]],"date-time":"2019-12-05T01:02:23Z","timestamp":1575507743000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Combining entity co-occurrence with specialized word embeddings to measure entity relation in Alzheimer\u2019s disease"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Go Eun","family":"Heo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qing","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Min","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jeong-Hoon","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,5]]},"reference":[{"issue":"13","key":"934_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"i386","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bty263","volume":"34","author":"W Xing","year":"2018","unstructured":"Xing W, Qi J, Yuan X, Li L, Zhang X, Fu Y, Xiong S, Hu L, Peng J. 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