title: BioAnnote: a software platform for annotating biomedical documents with application in medical learning environments.
abstract: Automatic term annotation from biomedical documents and external information linking are becoming a necessary prerequisite in modern computer-aided medical learning systems. In this context, this paper presents BioAnnote, a flexible and extensible open-source platform for automatically annotating biomedical resources. Apart from other valuable features, the software platform includes (i) a rich client enabling users to annotate multiple documents in a user friendly environment, (ii) an extensible and embeddable annotation meta-server allowing for the annotation of documents with local or remote vocabularies and (iii) a simple client/server protocol which facilitates the use of our meta-server from any other third-party application. In addition, BioAnnote implements a powerful scripting engine able to perform advanced batch annotations.
authors.affiliation: Informatics Department, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain. hlfernandez@uvigo.es
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: López-Fernández
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reboiro-Jato
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Glez-Peña
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Aparicio
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gachet
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Buenaga
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fdez-Riverola
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface