2008 AutomatingCurationUsingANLPpipeline

(Alex et al., 2008) ⇒ Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Barry Haddow, Mijail Kabadjov, Ewan Klein, Michael Matthews, Richard Tobin, Xinglong Wang. (2008). “Automating Curation Using a Natural Language Processing Pipeline.” In: Genome Biology, 9(S10). doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-s2-s10

Subject Headings: Closed IE Task, Text Annotation, Biomedical Literature, BioCreative II Task.

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Background: The tasks in BioCreative II were designed to approximate some of the laborious work involved in curating biomedical research papers. The approach to these tasks taken by the University of Edinburgh team was to adapt and extend the existing natural language processing (NLP) system that we have developed as part of a commercial curation assistant. Although this paper concentrates on using NLP to assist with curation, the system can be equally employed to extract types of information from the literature that is immediately relevant to biologists in general.

Results: Our system was among the highest performing on the interaction subtasks, and competitive performance on the gene mention task was achieved with minimal development effort. For the gene normalization task, a string matching technique that can be quickly applied to new domains was shown to perform close to average.

Conclusion: The technologies being developed were shown to be readily adapted to the BioCreative II tasks. Although high performance may be obtained on individual tasks such as gene mention recognition and normalization, and document classification, tasks in which a number of components must be combined, such as detection and normalization of interacting protein pairs, are still challenging for NLP systems.

Background

Curating biomedical literature into relational databases is a laborious task, in view of the quantity of biomedical research papers that are published on a daily basis. It is widely argued that text mining could simplify and speed up this task [1-3] . In this report we describe how a text mining system developed for a commercial curation project was adapted for the BioCreative II competition. Our submission (team 6) to this competition is based on research carried out as part of the Text Mining (TXM) program, a 3-year project aimed at producing natural language processing (NLP) tools to assist in the curation of biomedical papers. The principal product of this project is an information extraction (IE) pipeline, designed to extract named entities (NEs) and relations relevant to the biomedical domain, and to normalize the NEs to appropriate ontologies (Figure 1). Although the TXM pipeline is designed to assist specialized users, such as curators, it can equally be employed to extract information from the literature that is immediately relevant to biologists in general. For example, it can be used to automatically create large-scale databases or to generate protein-protein interaction networks.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2008 AutomatingCurationUsingANLPpipeline	Claire Grover Beatrice Alex Barry Haddow Mijail Kabadjov Ewan Klein Michael Matthews Richard Tobin Xinglong Wang			Automating Curation Using a Natural Language Processing Pipeline		Genome Biology	http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/S2/S10	10.1186/gb-2008-9-s2-s10		2008