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Citation	Karamanis, N., Seal, R., Lewin, I., McQuilton, P., Vlachos, A., Gasperin, C., Drysdale, R., Briscoe, T. (2008). Natural language processing in aid of FlyBase curators. BMC Bioinformatics 9(): 193. (Export to RIS)
FlyBase ID	FBrf0206381
Publication Type	Research paper
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PubMed ID	18410678
PubMed Abstract	Despite increasing interest in applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) to biomedical text, whether this technology can facilitate tasks such as database curation remains unclear.PaperBrowser is the first NLP-powered interface that was developed under a user-centered approach to improve the way in which FlyBase curators navigate an article. In this paper, we first discuss how observing curators at work informed the design and evaluation of PaperBrowser. Then, we present how we appraise PaperBrowser's navigational functionalities in a user-based study using a text highlighting task and evaluation criteria of Human-Computer Interaction. Our results show that PaperBrowser reduces the amount of interactions between two highlighting events and therefore improves navigational efficiency by about 58% compared to the navigational mechanism that was previously available to the curators. Moreover, PaperBrowser is shown to provide curators with enhanced navigational utility by over 74% irrespective of the different ways in which they highlight text in the article.We show that state-of-the-art performance in certain NLP tasks such as Named Entity Recognition and Anaphora Resolution can be combined with the navigational functionalities of PaperBrowser to support curation quite successfully.
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Language of Publication	English
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Publication Type	Journal
Abbreviation	BMC Bioinformatics
Title	BMC Bioinformatics
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Publication Year	2000-
ISBN/ISSN	1471-2105
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