Getting more out of biomedical documents with GATE's full lifecycle open source text analytics.

ABSTRACT: This software article describes the GATE family of open source text analysis tools and processes. GATE is one of the most widely used systems of its type with yearly download rates of tens of thousands and many active users in both academic and industrial contexts. In this paper we report three examples of GATE-based systems operating in the life sciences and in medicine. First, in genome-wide association studies which have contributed to discovery of a head and neck cancer mutation association. Second, medical records analysis which has significantly increased the statistical power of treatment/outcome models in the UK's largest psychiatric patient cohort. Third, richer constructs in drug-related searching. We also explore the ways in which the GATE family supports the various stages of t

SUBMITTER: Cunningham H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3567135 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature