A tool for the automatic and manual annotation of biomedical documents

• Author(s): Lourenço, Anália ; Carneiro, S. ; Carreira, Rafael ; Rocha, Miguel ; Rocha, I. ; Ferreira, E. C.
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/9086
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The techniques developed within the field of Biomedical Text Mining (BioTM) have been mainly tested and evaluated over a set of known corpora built by a few researchers with a specific goal or to support scientific competitions. The generalized use of BioTM software therefore requires that an enlarged set of corpora is made available covering a wider range of biomedical research topics. This work proposes a software tool that facilitates the task of building a BioTM corpus by providing a userfriendly and interoperable tool that allows both automatic and manual annotation of biomedical documents (supporting both abstracts and full text). This tool is also integrated in a more comprehensive BioTM framework.