Identifiers Extractor

A text-mining pipeline to extract identifiers such as European Research Council grant ids in free text. The pipeline mainly consists of two java programs.

1. (TODO) Dictionary builder. Given a tsv file, build an MWT-based dictionary.
2. Dictionary-based tagger. Given a dictionary, the tagger identifies terms in the dictionary using a Java Finite Automata library.
3. Validator. For each identified term, the validator removes an errorneous term using several mechanisms (contextual information, online validation, etc.).

How to build?

sbt assembly

How to use?

You need to create a dictionary based on mwt format and format your input documents in xml.

MWT dictionary format

<mwt>
  <template><acc db="%1" valmethod="%2" domain="%3" context="%4" wsize="%5">%0</acc></template>
  <r p1="$DBNAME" p2="$VALMETHOD" p3="$DOMAIN" p4="$CONTEXT" p5="$WINDOW_SIZE">$PATTERN</r>
</mwt>

• valmethod: noval (no validation), contextOnly (keyword-based constraints), onlne (validation using online validation), onlineWithContext (keyword-based constraints and online validation using online validation.)
• domain: one of domain identifier mentioned in https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebisearch/overview.ebi
• context: a list of keywords
• wsize: the size of window on the left side of a matched term

How to build a dictionary?

• from owl
• (TODO) from tsv
• (TODO) from identifiers.org

Input document format

The pipeline takes sentences as input. Those sentences have to be formatted as follows>

<article>
  <text>
    <SENT sid="0" pm="."><plain>$FIRST_SENTENCE</plain></SENT>
    <SENT sid="1" pm="."><plain>$SECOND_SENTENCE</plain></SENT>
  </text>
</article>

Examples

European Research Council funding id extraction

sbt testERC

or

cat test/ercfunds.txt | \
java -cp lib/monq-1.7.1.jar monq.programs.DictFilter -t elem -e plain -ie UTF-8 -oe UTF-8 automata/grants150714.mwt | \
java -cp target/scala-2.10/europepmc-identifier-extractor-assembly-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar ukpmc.ValidateAccessionNumber -stdpipe

Accession number mining

sbt testAcc

or

cat test/accnums.txt | \
java -cp lib/monq-1.7.1.jar monq.programs.DictFilter -t elem -e plain -ie UTF-8 -oe UTF-8 automata/acc150612.mwt | \
java -cp target/scala-2.10/europepmc-identifier-extractor-assembly-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar ukpmc.ValidateAccessionNumber -stdpipe

Running as server

java -cp lib/monq-1.7.1.jar monq.programs.DictFilter -t elem -e plain -ie UTF-8 -oe UTF-8 automata/acc150612.mwt -p 3333 &
java -cp target/scala-2.10/europepmc-identifier-extractor-assembly-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar ukpmc.ValidateAccessionNumber &
echo "<SENT><plain>pdb 1aj9</plain></SENT>" | java -cp lib/monq-1.7.1.jar monq.programs.DistFilter -c . 'host=localhost;port=3333' 'host=localhost;port=7811'

TODO

• to implement ! for negation.
• sbt plugin for plug and play.
• to build a container.
• to run as container (e.g., Docker)
• to nun on AWS

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by European Research Council (H2020 ERC-EuropePMC-2-2014 637529).