INSEMTIVES - Incentives
for Semantics
Agenda:
9.30 – 10.00 Project overview (Coordinator)
10.00 – 11.00 Tools presentations (WP4 partners)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.30 Open discussion and feedback from UAB
12.30 – 13.00 Closing (Coordinator)
19.00 Social event
Please confirm your attendance to Alice Carpentier until Friday, 19.3.2010 12.00.
Bionotate is a Web tool designed to enrich our understanding of published genetic research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Bionotate represents an important step forward towards a sophisticated search engine that will enable faster, focused searches through the legacy of biomedical text on ASD, ultimately quickening the pace to discovery. The effort is a collaboration between Harvard University, University of Granada and Alias-i Inc.
Objective 1 of the annotation project is to have human beings (you) identify whether an ASD citation contains mention of a gene. At this point we are asking people to annotate 20 articles but it is fine if you do less. If Objective 1 goes well, later objectives will include spotting particular mentions of genes in ASD citations and the holy grail of genetics text mining, relationships between genes and other biologically relevant entities.
You can find all the information about the BioNotate project here: http://bionotate.hms.harvard.edu/autism/index.html
In this article recently appeared on FirstMonday, Viola Krebs illustrates the motives behind the willingness of a large community of individuals to volunteer computing power to help solve a medical research problem. What I find mighty interesting for our endeavors is:
a) the literature review section of the paper (it looks like we are doing a good job in tracking the relevant literature even though we apply it to a different domain!)
b) the methodological section in which they present a fine method for discriminating Implicit and Explicit motivation mechanisms.
You can read the whole paper here:
firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2783/2452
I just found a very interesting article about the application of social tagging in corporate domains. Some quotes found in the article:
“As social tagging grows increasingly popular on the Web, organizations are curious to see how this trendy Web 2.0 approach can benefit the business world. (…) Organizations are thus looking to social tagging as a potential solution for increased findability on intranets, news/blog monitoring and collaboration in workgroups. The enterprise context is different however, and many of the elements that make social tagging work on the Web make it a challenge behind the firewall.
(…) A hybrid solution that employs social tagging and formal taxonomy as complementary information access approaches is emerging as a winning solution.
Organizations are interested in using social tagging technology both within workgroups and across the enterprise. Tagging can supplement information retrieval options in intranets and document management systems, allowing employees to use tags to enhance the findability of internal and external content without waiting for an information professional to categorize it.
(…) These all sound like great benefits, so why doesn’t every company implement social tagging? (…) The first major difference between the Web and the enterprise is nature of the content.
The first major difference between the Web and the enterprise is nature of the content. (…)
People are also different on the Web vs. the enterprise. (…)
Other issues that must be considered pertain to the quality of tags and tagging systems. (…)
Essentially, organizations should not be afraid to get involved in social tagging: it is a simple and inexpensive way to inject a little Web 2.0 into your employees’ lives and supplement more formal approaches to findability. (…)”
You can find the whole article here: http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-social-tagging-and-enterprise-does-tagging-work-work.html
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