The document discusses text mining and named entity recognition techniques for finding disease genes from biomedical abstracts. It describes retrieving over 60,000 abstracts on prostate cancer and schizophrenia, identifying human genes from those texts, and prioritizing genes that are commonly mentioned between the two diseases. The task involves recognizing gene names in the abstracts, creating a "black list" to filter out incorrectly identified names, and extracting gene co-mentions to find shared disease genes.