@conference {242,
	title = {Mapping of glossary terms from the Flora of North America to the Plant Ontology enhances both resources},
	booktitle = {3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012)},
	series = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012)},
	year = {2012},
	month = {2012},
	publisher = {KR-MED Series},
	organization = {KR-MED Series},
	address = {Graz, Austria},
	abstract = {Traditional taxonomic literature can provide a wealth ofdata, but access to that data is limited by its free-text format. Taxonomic treatments such as the Flora of North America (FNA Editorial Committee 1993) consist of terse descriptions of the characters used to identify taxa, such as: {\textquotedblleft}{\textellipsis}Leaves usually alternate or opposite, sometimes in basal rosettes, rarely in whorls; rarely stipulate, usually petiolate, sometimes sessile{\textellipsis}{\textquotedblright} Converting taxonomic descriptions to computer-readable format makes them available for automatic retrieval and large-scale analyses. Ontologies such as the Plant Ontology (PO) play a central role in automatic annotation, by providing semantic meaning for the words in a description. We used automated and manual methods to map terms from the Categorical Glossary for the Flora of North America Project (http://128.2.21.109/fmi/xsl/FNA/home.xsl) to the PO.},
	url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-897/},
	author = {Walls, Ramona L},
	editor = {Cornet, R. and Steven, R. and Cooper, Laurel D. and Macklin, James A. and Cui, Hong and Mungall, Chris and Dennis Wm. Stevenson and Jaiswal, Pankaj}
}
