Open Ontology Forge: A Tool for Ontology Creation and Text Annotation Applied to the Biomedical Domain

In this paper, we will introduce Open Ontology Forge (OOF), a software tool for ontology creation, terminology annotation, and coreference annotation by experts applied to the biomedical domain. Encoding expert’s knowledge of this domain in a consistent and machine understandable way is important in order to make the knowledge publicly available and improve the quality of information extraction from the vast and growing amount of texts such as online journals. OOF provides a convenient environment for knowledge-encoding by biomedical experts, reducing much effort and maintaining the consistency of encoding at the same time.