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ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium2017

Harnessing Biomedical Natural Language Processing Tools to Identify Medicinal Plant Knowledge from Historical Texts.

Vivekanand Sharma, Wayne Law, Michael J Balick, Indra Neil Sarkar

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Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Vivekanand SharmaCenter for Biomedical Informatics, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Wayne LawNew York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY.
Michael J BalickNew York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY.
Indra Neil SarkarCenter for Biomedical Informatics, Brown University, Providence, RI.

Funding

In silico identification of phyto-therapiesR01LM011963 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI LAW, WAYNE, SARKAR, INDRA N · 2014 to 2016
$1.2M
NLM NIH HHS R01 LM011963
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The growing amount of data describing historical medicinal uses of plants from digitization efforts provides the opportunity to develop systematic approaches for identifying potential plant-based therapies. However, the task of cataloguing plant use information from natural language text is a challenging task for ethnobotanists. To date, there have been only limited adoption of informatics approaches used for supporting the identification of ethnobotanical information associated with medicinal uses. This study explored the feasibility of using biomedical terminologies and natural language processing approaches for extracting relevant plant-associated therapeutic use information from historical biodiversity literature collection available from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The results from this preliminary study suggest that there is potential utility of informatics methods to identify medicinal plant knowledge from digitized resources as well as highlight opportunities for improvement.

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BiodiversityNatural Language ProcessingPlants, MedicinalBiological OntologiesFeasibility StudiesHistory, 19th CenturyHistory, 20th CenturyInformation Storage and RetrievalPhytotherapyTextbooks as Topic

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PMID29854223
PMCPMC5977595

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