BioC: a minimalist approach to interoperability for biomedical text processing
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BioC: a minimalist approach to interoperability for biomedical text processing
| Title: | BioC: a minimalist approach to interoperability for biomedical text processing |
| Author: |
Comeau, Donald C.; Islamaj Doğan, Rezarta; Ciccarese, Paolo; Cohen, Kevin Bretonnel; Krallinger, Martin; Leitner, Florian; Lu, Zhiyong; Peng, Yifan; Rinaldi, Fabio; Torii, Manabu; Valencia, Alfonso; Verspoor, Karin; Wiegers, Thomas C.; Wu, Cathy H.; Wilbur, W. John
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| Citation: | Comeau, D. C., R. Islamaj Doğan, P. Ciccarese, K. B. Cohen, M. Krallinger, F. Leitner, Z. Lu, et al. 2013. “BioC: a minimalist approach to interoperability for biomedical text processing.” Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation 2013 (1): bat064. doi:10.1093/database/bat064. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/bat064. |
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| Abstract: | A vast amount of scientific information is encoded in natural language text, and the quantity of such text has become so great that it is no longer economically feasible to have a human as the first step in the search process. Natural language processing and text mining tools have become essential to facilitate the search for and extraction of information from text. This has led to vigorous research efforts to create useful tools and to create humanly labeled text corpora, which can be used to improve such tools. To encourage combining these efforts into larger, more powerful and more capable systems, a common interchange format to represent, store and exchange the data in a simple manner between different language processing systems and text mining tools is highly desirable. Here we propose a simple extensible mark-up language format to share text documents and annotations. The proposed annotation approach allows a large number of different annotations to be represented including sentences, tokens, parts of speech, named entities such as genes or diseases and relationships between named entities. In addition, we provide simple code to hold this data, read it from and write it back to extensible mark-up language files and perform some sample processing. We also describe completed as well as ongoing work to apply the approach in several directions. Code and data are available at http://bioc.sourceforge.net/. Database URL: http://bioc.sourceforge.net/ |
| Published Version: | doi:10.1093/database/bat064 |
| Other Sources: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3889917/pdf/ |
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