BioAnnote: A software platform for annotating biomedical documents with application in medical learning environments

  • Authors:
  • H. LóPez-FernáNdez;M. Reboiro-Jato;D. Glez-PeñA;F. Aparicio;D. Gachet;M. Buenaga;F. Fdez-Riverola

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Automatic term annotation from biomedical documents and external information linking are becoming a necessary prerequisite in modern computer-aided medical learning systems. In this context, this paper presents BioAnnote, a flexible and extensible open-source platform for automatically annotating biomedical resources. Apart from other valuable features, the software platform includes (i) a rich client enabling users to annotate multiple documents in a user friendly environment, (ii) an extensible and embeddable annotation meta-server allowing for the annotation of documents with local or remote vocabularies and (iii) a simple client/server protocol which facilitates the use of our meta-server from any other third-party application. In addition, BioAnnote implements a powerful scripting engine able to perform advanced batch annotations.