Figure 1
From: Mining characteristics of epidemiological studies from Medline: a case study in obesity
The four steps of the approach applied to epidemiological abstracts in order to recognise key characteristics. Linnaeus is used to filter out abstracts not related to humans; Dictionary look-up and automatic term recognition (ATR) are applied to identify major medical concepts in text; MinorThird is used as an environment for the rule application and mention identification of epidemiological characteristics.