A zero-shot NLP-based pipeline for automated processing of antimicrobial-related scientific texts

Open Access

Issue		BIO Web Conf. Volume 232, 2026 2026 16^th International Conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics (ICBBB 2026)


Article Number		06001
Number of page(s)		9
Section		AI-Driven Biomedical Text Mining and Intelligent Disease Diagnosis
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202623206001
Published online		24 April 2026

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