parsing taxonomic rank

[Susannah Lydon]

Sorry! Forgot to post the MultiFlora URL on the last message:

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/MultiFlora/

Susannah

On 26 Jun 2001, at 22:53, Jim Croft wrote:

> >We are currently working on the MultiFlora project (information
> >extraction from multiple floras) here at Manchester University. We're
> >using  "general purpose" language engineering software called GATE,
> >developed at Sheffield Uni, and seeing how little tweaking we can get
> >away with to extract useful information from taxon descriptions. To
> >us, taxonomic rank, nomenclature etc are the least of our worries  -
> >we're developing a few fairly straight-forward rules based on
> >suffixes and text structure. It's the morphological information
> >that's the big challenge...
>
> interesting...   have urls?
>
> jim