A web service for biomedical term look-up
2005
A web service for biomedical term look-up
publication
Evidence: moderate
Author Information
Author(s): Henk Harkema, Ian Roberts, Rob Gaizauskas, Mark Hepple
Primary Institution: University of Sheffield
Conclusion
Termino is a large-scale terminological resource for biomedical text processing that provides term recognition capabilities for information extraction, retrieval, and navigation.
Supporting Evidence
- Termino includes a flexible, extensible relational database that stores large numbers of terms.
- The web service allows users to access and integrate Termino into their applications without downloading software.
- Termino's database currently contains well over 400,000 terms.
- The web service provides public, standardized access to a resource over the web.
Takeaway
The study created a tool called Termino that helps researchers find and understand important biological terms in online texts quickly and easily.
Methodology
The study developed a web service that uses a large database of biomedical terms to identify and mark up terms in text.
Limitations
The web service may not disambiguate overlapping terms and relies on external databases for term recognition.
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