In the life sciences, there is an ample need for semantic interoperability of data. Thus
shared vocabularies are needed for consistently expressing metadata in terms of semantic …

The CALBC initiative aims to provide a large-scale biomedical text corpus that contains
semantic annotations for named entities of different kinds. The generation of this corpus requires …

Background Competitions in text mining have been used to measure the performance of
automatic text processing solutions against a manually annotated gold standard corpus (GSC). …

The leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp) has been shown to regulate, either positively
or negatively, the transcription of several Escherichia coli genes in response to leucine. We …

The importance of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA)
as an infectious agent for humans has increased in recent years in Germany. Although it …

In this paper, we describe our efforts to build on WORDNET resources, using WORDNET
lexical data, the data format that it comes with and WORDNET’s software infrastructure in order …

Despite the large variety of corpora in the biomedical domain their annotations differ in
many respects, eg, the coverage of different, highly specialized knowledge domains, varying …

Identifying relationships between hitherto unrelated entities in different ontologies is the key
task of ontology alignment. An alignment is either manually created by domain experts or …

Among the many proposals to promote alternatives to costly to create gold standards, just
recently the idea of a fully automatically, and thus cheaply, to set up silver standard has been …

In this paper, we report on adapting the JREX relation extraction engine, originally
developed For the elicitation of protein-protein interaction relations, to the domains of …