An analysis on the entity annotations in biological corpora

F1000Res. 2014 Apr 25:3:96. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.3216.1. eCollection 2014.

Abstract

Collection of documents annotated with semantic entities and relationships are crucial resources to support development and evaluation of text mining solutions for the biomedical domain. Here I present an overview of 36 corpora and show an analysis on the semantic annotations they contain. Annotations for entity types were classified into six semantic groups and an overview on the semantic entities which can be found in each corpus is shown. Results show that while some semantic entities, such as genes, proteins and chemicals are consistently annotated in many collections, corpora available for diseases, variations and mutations are still few, in spite of their importance in the biological domain.

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The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work.