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A Web Tool for Generating High Quality Machine-readable Biological Pathways
Published on: February 8, 2017
Semi-automated XML markup of biosystematic legacy literature with the GoldenGATE editor
Guido Sautter1, Klemens Böhm, Donat Agosti
1Department of Computer Science, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Am Fasanengarten 5, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
Abstract:
Today, digitization of legacy literature is a big issue. This also applies to the domain of biosystematics, where this process has just started. Digitized biosystematics literature requires a very precise and fine grained markup in order to be useful for detailed search, data linkage and mining. However, manual markup on sentence level and below is cumbersome and time consuming. In this paper, we present and evaluate the GoldenGATE editor, which is designed for the special needs of marking up OCR output with XML. It is built in order to support the user in this process as far as possible: Its functionality ranges from easy, intuitive tagging through markup conversion to dynamic binding of configurable plug-ins provided by third parties. Our evaluation shows that marking up an OCR document using GoldenGATE is three to four times faster than with an off-the-shelf XML editor like XML-Spy. Using domain-specific NLP-based plug-ins, these numbers are even higher.
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