An Overview of the Active Gene Annotation Corpus and the BioNLP OST 2019 AGAC Track Tasks (D19-57)
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| Challenge: | Biomedical natural language processing (BioNLP) has long been recognized as effective method to accelerate drug-related knowledge discovery. |
| Approach: | They developed an active gene annotation corpus (AGAC) to support drug repurposing. |
| Outcome: | The active gene annotation corpus (AGAC) was developed to support knowledge discovery for drug repurposing. |
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