Figure 3
From: What the papers say: Text mining for genomics and systems biology
(A) HUman Natural Killer; (B) Large piece of something without definite shape; (C) A well-built, sexually attractive man; (D) Hormonally Upregulated Neu-associated Kinase. Demonstration of the possible problems due to the biological nomenclature, given the sentence HUNK is associated with expression of Frizzled-2: HUNK could refer to a cell type, a protein and two common English words. While, in biological text, it is highly probable that (B) and (C) will not be relevant, it is not so easy to disambiguate (A) and (D). This is an example of the problems posed by polysemy (a word or phrase having multiple meanings), homonymity with common English words and the use of abbreviations in the literature [18].