Word add-in for ontology recognition: semantic enrichment of scientific literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the current era of scientific research, efficient communication of information is paramount. As such, the nature of scholarly and scientific communication is changing; cyberinfrastructure is now absolutely necessary and new media are allowing information and knowledge to be more interactive and immediate. One approach to making knowledge more accessible is the addition of machine-readable semantic data to scholarly articles.

Results

The Word add-in presented here will assist authors in this effort by automatically recognizing and highlighting words or phrases that are likely information-rich, allowing authors to associate semantic data with those words or phrases, and to embed that data in the document as XML. The add-in and source code are publicly available a

SUBMITTER: Fink JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2837026 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature