An Annotated Corpus for Machine Reading of Instructions in Wet Lab Protocols (N18-2)
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| Challenge: | Existing efforts to annotate natural language instructions into machine-readable formats are limited. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate a corpus of natural language instructions consisting of 622 wet lab protocols to facilitate automatic or semi-automatic conversion into a machine-readable format. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus can be used to facilitate automatic or semi-automatic conversion of protocols into a machine-readable format and benefit biological research. |
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