This repository contains the QEMP corpus, a metadata corpus from biodiversity research with 50 metadata files selected from 5 different repositories and biodiversity related projects as well as the BiodivTagger, a text mining pipeline that extracts biological entities.

• Pipeline contains the text mining pipeline to annotate biological Named Entities.
• Evaluation contains the python script to evaluate the pipeline with the gold standard and the evaluation results.
• QEMP Corpus contains the raw metadata xml files per data repository and the gold standard in json format.
• Ontological Issues List provides a list with missing ontological entries and ontological conflicts.

• Pipeline The BiodivTagger is distributed under the GNU GPL v3.0
• QEMP Corpus The QEMP corpus is distributed under the CC-BY-4.0

Löffler, F., Abdelmageed, N., Babalou, S., Kaur, P., König-Ries, B.: Tag Me If You Can! Semantic Annotation of Biodiversity Metadata with the QEMP Corpus and the BiodivTagger, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, France, 2020