title: @Note: a workbench for biomedical text mining.
abstract: Biomedical Text Mining (BioTM) is providing valuable approaches to the automated curation of scientific literature. However, most efforts have addressed the benchmarking of new algorithms rather than user operational needs. Bridging the gap between BioTM researchers and biologists' needs is crucial to solve real-world problems and promote further research. We present @Note, a platform for BioTM that aims at the effective translation of the advances between three distinct classes of users: biologists, text miners and software developers. Its main functional contributions are the ability to process abstracts and full-texts; an information retrieval module enabling PubMed search and journal crawling; a pre-processing module with PDF-to-text conversion, tokenisation and stopword removal; a semantic annotation schema; a lexicon-based annotator; a user-friendly annotation view that allows to correct annotations and a Text Mining Module supporting dataset preparation and algorithm evaluation. @Note improves the interoperability, modularity and flexibility when integrating in-home and open-source third-party components. Its component-based architecture allows the rapid development of new applications, emphasizing the principles of transparency and simplicity of use. Although it is still on-going, it has already allowed the development of applications that are currently being used.
authors.affiliation: IBB - Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal. analia@deb.uminho.pt
authors.forename: Anália
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lourenço
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Carreira
authors.forename: Sónia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carneiro
authors.forename: Paulo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maia
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Glez-Peña
authors.forename: Florentino
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fdez-Riverola
authors.forename: Eugénio C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rocha
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rocha
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012660:Semantics; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled