Status: Completed
Start Date: September 2002
End Date: March 2005

Biovista’s goal with the Esperonto project was to support literature based scientific discovery in the domain of the life sciences.

Technologies Used

Esperonto combined a number of technologies to achieve its goal:

  1. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Extraction (IE): are used to extract facts (such as the effects of a compound) and complex events (such as the interaction between two proteins) from scientific articles and save them in a database for further systematic analysis.
  2. Ontologies: are used to represent and organize domain specific knowledge such as drug profiles, diseases, biological pathways and protein interactions.
  3. Co-Occurrence and Link Analysis: are used to identify hidden links and relations between entities of interest.

The project carried out applied research aimed at integrating the above technologies into a framework for systematic scientific discovery.

For more information

For more information on the project or if you would like to discuss the application of this research to your work, please send an email to: info{at}biovista.com