Text Mining Science
text mining for science - the science of text mining
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This project has its own project website. Please see: LEAP-FS Project Site
LEAP-FS is an approach that integrates high-throughput structure-based and text-based functional site predictions. Functional site identification plays an important role in targeted drug design. The approach is described in our recent PLoS One publication. We have since explored finer-grained detection of catalytic sites from the biomedical literature in a 2013 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing paper.
The project is a collaboration between Karin Verspoor, and Michael Wall and Judith Cohn at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It was initially funded by an NIH National Library of Medicine award and now is supported by NICTA and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
In order to facilitate both the use of biological knowledge (information about biological entities and events) in our text mining systems, and to share the results of our text mining work with the broader community, we are participating in efforts to develop annotation standards for the semantic web. Specifically, we are collaborating with the Open Annotation Collaboration through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We are also engaging with the W3C Health Care and Life Sciences interest group, as they have related objectives.
I previously worked on an OASIS technical standard for the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA). UIMA originated at IBM but is now an Apache Open Source project. This provides a standard, modular architecture of facilitate reuse of text analytics. One aspect of our current project is to enable our UIMA pipelines to produce Open Annotation-compatible RDF output.
© Copyright 2014 Karin Verspoor. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employers or funders: the University of Melbourne, the Australian Research Council, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, or National ICT Australia.