Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT

Interactive Content Extraction (semi- and fully automated)

GUIDO SAUTTERKIT

guido.sautter@kit.edu

ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity

Workpackage 7Biodiversity Literature Accessand Data Mining

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Who we are & what we do

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Prof. Dr. Klemens BöhmHead of Database & Information Systems GroupComputer Science Department @ KIT

Data Analytics, Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing, Query Processing in Databases

Guido SautterResearcher / PhD StudentComputer Science Department @ KIT

Semantic Markup of & Data Extraction from Legacy Documents, Interactive NLP, ... GoldenGATE

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What we will do in ViBRANT

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Community-contributed bibliography [month 12]:- “Link as you browse!“ (an unlinked reference? link it)- “Parse & correct as you browse!“ (as you encounter the need)

Markup Modules [month 24]:- “Markup & correct as you browse!“ (same idea as above)- “No time? Then note it!“ (add note to public TODO list)

Advanced Search [month 35]:- “Browse, don‘t google!“ (generate rich in-text search links)- ... from marked / annotated parts of documents

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Engaging Citizen Scientists

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Make existing parsing facilities for bibliographic references available via Scratchpads to help with shared bibliography:

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Assisting Taxonomists in Scratchpads

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Make available parsing functionality for taxonomic names: