POSTECH Bio-Text Mining System Workbench
- System Description
- The POSBIOTM/W workbench is intended to assist biologists in effectively and efficiently mining useful and valuable information from rich biomedical text resources.
- The Managing tool helps biologists search, collect and manage literatures relevant to their interest. Moreover, the incremental PubMed search assistant provides some facilities for better utilization of PubMed.
- The NER tool is a client tool of POSBIOTM/NER system and enables users to automatically and effectively annotate biomedical-related entities.
- The Event Extraction Tool is a client tool of POSBIOTM/Event Extraction system and automatically extract interactions among four different entity types.
- The GUI-based Annotation tool is designed to manipulate the manual annotations. The well-annotation data which is uploaded to the POSBIOTM system will contribute to the incremental build-up of a massive amount of named-entity and event annotation corpus.
- The POSBIOTM/W workbench is intended to assist biologists in effectively and efficiently mining useful and valuable information from rich biomedical text resources.
- Requirements
- O/S : Windows 98, 2000, XP and Linux and Unix
(all O/S should support Java runtime environment or Java web start) - Java Runtime Environment(JRE) v.1.5.0 or higher
(it can be executed with lower version of JRE, but it can work improperly.)
- O/S : Windows 98, 2000, XP and Linux and Unix
- Usage
- Input the keyword of search to Quick Search Bar on the Search tab.
- You can select number of abstract to be displayed by choosing "# per page".
- Only Pubmed Search is available now.
- If you click "MORE" button, you can execute Search Assistance, which will help you to find abstract by offering more query constraints.

- Select one of the abstracts in the Search Result Frame.
- If you select and double click one of the abstracts in Search Result Frame,
- Text of the abstract will be shown in the Abstract Display frame.

- If you want to do Named-entity Recognition task,
- Click the NE tagging button on the Annotation tab
- You will see the Named-entity recognized text.(it may take about 10 seconds)
- Named entities in the text have different colors.
- You can change the color of entity.
And you can remove or add the entities with NE Annotator.
- If you want to Event extraction task,
- Click the Extraction button on the Annotation tab
- You will see the event between the biological Named-entities.(it may take about 20~30 seconds)
- You can add, remove and edit the Event with Event Annotator.

- If you want to add a new event,
- Click "Add" button in main window,
- And select sentence number from "S-number" in Event Extraction Annotator frame.
- And click the "Get Sentence" button.
- Then you can see the sentence which is for adding event.
- And specify interaction, effecter and reactant. Finally, click the "Confirm" button.
- If you want to remove an event, select one of event you want to remove and click the "remove" button in the main window.
- Update an event is similar to add a new event.

- Input the keyword of search to Quick Search Bar on the Search tab.
Abstract
The POSBIOTM/W is a workbench for machine-learning oriented biomedical text mining system. The POSBIOTM/W is intended to assist biologist in mining useful information efficiently from biomedical text resources. To do so, it provides a suit of tools for gathering, managing, analyzing and annotating texts.
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