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We describe how we developed and applied two annotation schemes for journal articles in the field of chemistry. The first involves the criteria for identifying a chemical named entity and assigning it a “type”, roughly speaking deciding whether it was a small molecular species, a process that a small molecular species might be involved in, an enzyme, or an adjective or a prefix. The second involves assigning these chemical named entities a “subtype” which describes the reference, for example whether “imidazole” refers to the imidazole molecule itself, the imidazole motif within a larger molecule, or any of a family of molecules bearing the imidazole motif. We also describe how these guidelines and the resulting corpora and software have subsequently been used.
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Batchelor, C., Corbett, P., Teufel, S. (2017). Case Study: Chemistry. In: Ide, N., Pustejovsky, J. (eds) Handbook of Linguistic Annotation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0881-2_33
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