Automatic Biodiversity Literature Enhancement | ABLE project

Time 2020-12-09 06:03:19

Web Name: Automatic Biodiversity Literature Enhancement | ABLE project

WebSite: http://able.myspecies.info

ID:128233

Keywords:

Literature,Biodiversity,Automatic,

Description:

This site is moderated by agw96 on behalf of the contributors who retain copyright.Content can be used in accordance with a CC Licence.This site uses Drupal and is based on a set of templates and modules defined by the Scratchpad team at the Natural History Museum, London. We seek to develop concept extraction methods from scanned literature, extending the work of Lu et al (2008) , targeting the biodiversity domain. The project will use image analysis (feature extraction), document layout (reverse-engineering a DTD), Natural Language Processing (NLP). Automatic Biodiversity Literature Enhancement ViewBy termWe plan to extend and establish the generality of the mark-up and meta data extraction from scanned literature developed by Lu et al (2008), targeting the biodiversity domain. Meta-data will focus on proper nouns (taxon, people and place names) and dates: we will enhance the searchability of those terms using associative techniques from Natural Language Processing (NLP) combined with likely Optical Character Recognition (OCR) errors, for example by allowing the recovery of Pioa against a search for Pica, provided the context of Pioa is a bird, ideally a magpie. The project will work with approximately 10 volumes that will be scanned (approx. 3000 pages) which will be rendered into several alternative XML structures. The project deliverables will be made available on the project website and through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as exemplar data sets which will, hopefully, stimulate further research into automatic extraction of meaning from scanned literature. If fully successful the software developed here will be applied to the BHL library of over 6 million pages. BHL scanners produce a structural XML output and a small part of the project will look at the feasibility of developing software to create compatible files starting from plain image scans.Alternative websiteThe project also maintains an OU-hosted website for the project. ‘When I use a word’, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.’‘The question is’, said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’‘The question is’, said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be Master - that’s all.’ Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1871.See also Ontologies and taxonomies and About Darwin core

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