Customisable Curation Workflows in Argo

We adapt Argo, a Web-based text mining workbench, to accommodate a curation task for BioCreative IV Track 5 User Interactive Task. The system allows users to build and run custom processing workflows composed of a subset of available elementary processing components. Running such workflows results in the generation of annotations for each input document. Argo has the capability to include a manual annotation editor as part of any workflow and therefore facilitates manual inspection and correction of otherwise automatically produced annotations. As a case study, we propose a curation task that involves the annotation and identification (normalisation) of concepts relevant to metabolic processes, including chemicals, gene or gene products, and trigger/bioprocess expressions.