CHIC - Converting Hamburgers into Cows

Author

Townsend, Joseph A. ; Downing, Jim ; Murray-Rust, Peter

Author_Institution

Unilever Centre for Mol. Sci. Inf., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

337

Lastpage

343

Abstract

We have developed a methodology and workflow (CHIC) for the automatic semantification and structuring of legacy textual scientific documents. CHIC imports common document formats (PDF, DOCX and (X)HTML) and uses a number of toolkits to extract components and convert them into SciXML. This is sectioned into text-rich and data-rich streams and stand-off annotation (SAF) is created for each. Embedded domain specific objects can be converted into XML (chemical markup language). The different workflow streams can then be recombined and typically converted into RDF (resource description format).

Keywords

XML; document handling; scientific information systems; software maintenance; (X)HTML; CHIC; DOCX; PDF; SciXML; automatic semantification; chemical markup language; data-rich streams; legacy textual scientific documents; resource description format; stand-off annotation; Chemicals; Cows; Data mining; Informatics; Markup languages; OWL; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Vehicles; XML; SAF; XML; conversion; semantics; workflow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Science, 2009. e-Science '09. Fifth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Oxford

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3877-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/e-Science.2009.54

Filename

5380847