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Constructing a biodiversity terminological inventory. [PDF]
The increasing growth of literature in biodiversity presents challenges to users who need to discover pertinent information in an efficient and timely manner.
Nguyen NTH+4 more
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Plazi is a Swiss non-governmental organization dedicated to the liberation of data imprisoned in flat, dead-end formats such as PDFs. In the process, the data therein is annotated and exported in various formats, following field-specific standards ...
Diego Alvares+4 more
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Structuring Information from Plant Morphological Descriptions using Open Information Extraction
Taxonomic literature keeps records of the planet's biodiversity and gives access to the knowledge needed for research and sustainable management. The number of publications generated is quite large: the corpus of biodiversity literature includes tens of ...
M. Mora-Cross+5 more
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We present a method to give producers the means to conduct economic cost‐benefit analyses of wild pig damage to agriculture using drone technology, harvest yield data, and custom deep learning algorithm workflows. Our results show the spatial and temporal pattern of wild pig damage to corn, causing losses to agricultural income at the field scale ...
Bethany A. Friesenhahn+7 more
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Applications of natural language processing in biodiversity science. [PDF]
Centuries of biological knowledge are contained in the massive body of scientific literature, written for human‐readability but too big for any one person to consume. Large‐scale mining of information from the literature is necessary if biology is to transform into a data‐driven science.
Thessen AE, Cui H, Mozzherin D.
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Landscape Analysis for the Specimen Data Refinery [PDF]
This report reviews the current state-of-the-art applied approaches on automated tools, services and workflows for extracting information from images of natural history specimens and their labels. We consider the potential for repurposing existing tools,
Bánki, Olaf+13 more
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Geoparsing biodiversity heritage library collections: A preliminary exploration [PDF]
A short pilot study was conducted to provide recommendations on methods and workflows for extracting geographic references from the text of Biodiversity Heritage Library collections and disambiguating these references. An initial survey of the literature
Sheffield, Carolyn+1 more
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Recognition of Latin scientific names using artificial neural networks
Premise The automated recognition of Latin scientific names within vernacular text has many applications, including text mining, search indexing, and automated specimen‐label processing. Most published solutions are computationally inefficient, incapable of running within a web browser, and focus on texts in English, thus omitting a substantial portion
Damon P. Little
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An evaluation of taxonomic name finding & next steps in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) developments [PDF]
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an international consortium of natural history libraries that are actively scanning scientific literature from their collections and publishing the digitized content online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org.
Chris Freeland
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Crowdsourcing Natural History Archives: Tools for Extracting Transcriptions and Data [PDF]
This paper is a survey of the landscape of current, successful, and innovative platforms for extracting full text transcriptions and structured data using crowdsourcing as a tool.
De Veer, Joseph+2 more
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