SIFR annotator: ontology-based semantic annotation of French biomedical text and clinical notes.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Despite a wide adoption of English in science, a significant amount of biomedical data are produced in other languages, such as French. Yet a majority of natural language processing or semantic tools as well as domain terminologies or ontologies are only available in English, and cannot be readily applied to other languages, due to fundamental linguistic differences. However, semantic resources are required to design semantic indexes and transform biomedical (text)data into knowledge for better information mining and retrieval.

Authors

  • Andon Tchechmedjiev
    Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM), University of Montpellier & CNRS, Montpellier 34090, France.
  • Amine Abdaoui
    LIRMM, 860 St Priest Street, 34095 Montpellier, France.
  • Vincent Emonet
    Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM), University of Montpellier & CNRS, Montpellier 34090, France.
  • Stella Zevio
    Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM), University of Montpellier, CNRS, 161, rue Ada, 34095, Montpellier cedex 5, France.
  • Clement Jonquet
    Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, 1265 Welch Road, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305-5479, USA.