Towards semantic annotation of bioinformatics Web services

Semantic annotation can facilitate the discovery, retrieval and reusability of Web services. In this paper, we address the problem of automatically creating semantic annotation of web services in the field of bioinformatics. We propose a semi-automatic approach for lexico-syntactic patterns discovery from a training corpus. Lexico-syntactic patterns are then used to recognize three types of annotations from a Web service textual description: (1) the service name, the list of (2) its input and (3) output parameters expressed as domain concepts. Finally, we investigate how helpful the adoption of a Termino-Ontological Resource (TOR) for a semantic annotation extraction process.