Karamanis, N., Seal, R., Lewin, I. et al. (5 more authors) (2008) Natural Language Processing in aid of FlyBase curators. BMC Bioinformatics, 9. 193. ISSN 1471-2105
Abstract
Background: Despite increasing interest in applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) to biomedical text, whether this technology can facilitate tasks such as database curation remains unclear.
Results: PaperBrowser is the first NLP-powered interface that was developed under a user-centered approach to improve the way in which FlyBase curators navigate an article. In this paper, we first discuss how observing curators at work informed the design and evaluation of PaperBrowser. Then, we present how we appraise PaperBrowser's navigational functionalities in a user-based study using a text highlighting task and evaluation criteria of Human-Computer Interaction. Our results show that PaperBrowser reduces the amount of interactions between two highlighting events and therefore improves navigational efficiency by about 58% compared to the navigational mechanism that was previously available to the curators. Moreover, PaperBrowser is shown to provide curators with enhanced navigational utility by over 74% irrespective of the different ways in which they highlight text in the article.
Conclusion: We show that state-of-the-art performance in certain NLP tasks such as Named Entity Recognition and Anaphora Resolution can be combined with the navigational functionalities of PaperBrowser to support curation quite successfully.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Karamanis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2008. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Algorithms; Artificial Intelligence; Database Management Systems; Databases, Bibliographic; Information Storage and Retrieval; Natural Language Processing; Periodicals as Topic; Software; Vocabulary, Controlled |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2016 09:44 |
Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2016 09:46 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-9-193 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/1471-2105-9-193 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:108784 |