Natural language processing for biomedical tools discovery: A feasibility study and preliminary results

Abstract

Discovery of the appropriate computational components, needed to answer a clinical hypothesis, has been a major issue for physicians. Users without experience do not have the means, the time or the knowledge to search the vast amount of information regarding the candidate computational components (services or tools) which can aid to achieve their purpose. In order to address this need we introduce a dynamic service discovery environment where physicians can represent queries in natural language and dynamically retrieve the suitable candidate computational components, with the aid of information extraction algorithms guided by specific domain ontologies. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.