The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts Webinar series on topics focused on collaborating with NIF, getting involved in building the NIF vocabulary, using NIF portal resources, as well as other appropriate NIF topics.

Our next NIF Webinar is scheduled for March 23rd, 2010. Please join Dr. Rebecca Crowley, MD, MSIS, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and she covers the progress of the ODIE Toolkit. Below is information on how to join the online meeting and accompanying teleconference. For a schedule of the 2010 presentations or for more information about the NCBO Seminar series, see: http://www.bioontology.org/seminar-series.

Date and Time: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 • 11:00-12:00 PST
Topic: Progress on the ODIE Toolkit
Presenters: Dr. Rebecca Crowley, MD, MSIS
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll-free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739

A few months ago, ODIE 1.0 was quietly released on the NCBO GForge site. ODIE is an application that lets researchers (1) analyze text corpora using BioPortal ontologies to map text to BioPortal concepts, and (2) identify candidate concepts within text corpora that could be considered for addition to an existing ontology. The ODIE project has made some significant advances this year - including (1) complete redesign to use the UIMA platform, (2) integration of Mayo cTAKES pipeline into ODIE, (3) addition of a simple co-reference resolution algorithm as UIMA resource, and (4) addition of statistical as well as linguistic methods for discovering candidate concepts. In addition to the software, we've been working on developing co-reference corpora, and testing a variety of existing methods for ontology enrichment using domain experts and ontology developers as judges. This talk will demonstrate the latest release and will sample some of the year's research project findings. Dr. Rebecca Crowley from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, will preview the upcoming release of ODIE 1.1 which includes improved installation, visualization, placement of candidate concepts and export of proposals as OWL files.

We look forward to seeing you there.