TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lücking, Andy
A1  - Driller, Christine
A1  - Stoeckel, Manuel
A1  - Abrami, Giuseppe
A1  - Pachzelt, Adrian
A1  - Mehler, Alexander
T1  - Multiple annotation for biodiversity: developing an annotation framework among biology, linguistics and text technology
T2  - Language resources and evaluation
N2  - Biodiversity information is contained in countless digitized and unprocessed scholarly texts. Although automated extraction of these data has been gaining momentum for years, there are still innumerable text sources that are poorly accessible and require a more advanced range of methods to extract relevant information. To improve the access to semantic biodiversity information, we have launched the BIOfid project (www.biofid.de) and have developed a portal to access the semantics of German language biodiversity texts, mainly from the 19th and 20th century. However, to make such a portal work, a couple of methods had to be developed or adapted first. In particular, text-technological information extraction methods were needed, which extract the required information from the texts. Such methods draw on machine learning techniques, which in turn are trained by learning data. To this end, among others, we gathered the BIOfid text corpus, which is a cooperatively built resource, developed by biologists, text technologists, and linguists. A special feature of BIOfid is its multiple annotation approach, which takes into account both general and biology-specific classifications, and by this means goes beyond previous, typically taxon- or ontology-driven proper name detection. We describe the design decisions and the genuine Annotation Hub Framework underlying the BIOfid annotations and present agreement results. The tools used to create the annotations are introduced, and the use of the data in the semantic portal is described. Finally, some general lessons, in particular with multiple annotation projects, are drawn.
KW  - BIOfid
KW  - Biodiversity
KW  - Annotation
KW  - Semantic portal
KW  - Specialized information service
KW  - Inter-annotator agreement
KW  - Taxon
KW  - Named entity recognition
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/58102
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-581023
VL  - 2021
SP  - 1
EP  - 49
PB  - Springer
ER  -