Patent ID: 7228302
Filing Date: 2007-06-05
Classification: G06F,G16B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A tool providing interactive capabilities for user involvement in extracting and disambiguating biological information in text, said tool comprising: a text viewer into which at least a portion of a textual document is importable and viewable, said text viewer including a display on which said at least a portion of the text document is viewable; means for text mining the at least a portion of a textual document having been imported into the text viewer to extract nouns and verbs therefrom; a list-based text editor that lists nouns and verbs extracted by said means for text mining as entities and interactions; means for assigning directionality to the listed interactions; means for converting the extracted nouns and verbs into a local format representation as the entities and interactions; and means for generating, displaying and interactively manipulating a biological diagram, based upon the entities and interactions represented in said local format.