From Text to Pathway: Corpus Annotation for Knowledge Acquisition from Biomedical Literature

We present a new direction of research, which deploys Text Mining technologies to con- struct and maintain data bases organized in the form of pathway, by associating parts of papers with relevant portions of a pathway and vice versa. In order to materialize this scenario, we present two annotated corpora. The first, Event Annotation, identi- fies the spans of text in which biological events are reported, while the other, Pathway Annotation, associates portions of papers with specific parts in a pathway.