gettingcrafty

The idea here was to formulate and test patterns/rules for identifying mentions of complex concepts such as GO biological processes in text. To do so, we intended to leverage the extremely rich fabric of both semantic and syntactic annotations already available in the CRAFT corpus in the construction of these rules.

We attempted to implement these rules using the JAPE language that is a core part of the GATE NLP framework.

We spent most of the time at the hackathon learning how to use GATE. It was a challenge. Our group was divided about whether its worth pursuing further - mostly because of implementation challenges.. We would love to hear comments about similar tools that we might try that might offer equivalent functionality but easier use.