What is the task?

 

We need to understand the nature of biological text, whatever that turns out to be, linguistic theories not withstanding. Then we can build the tools to analyze it.

Users need sytems that will answer their queries and give them access to the underlying databases and knowledge bases that we generate.

As researchers in BioNLP, we all need access to large corpora, derived NL data and NLP tools, many of which will produce for one another.