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  <Title>Enhanced Free Text Access to Anatomically-Indexed Data</Title>
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7 Future Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> One result of this work has been to catch both structural and terminological inconsistencies in the Mouse Anatomical Nomenclature because our extractions allow biologists to easily see differences between one branch and another or between one tree and another in the Nomenclature.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> With respect to an enhanced interface to the gene expression data, we are now ready to take the results of our analyses and use them to provide a potentially more effective way of searching for relevant anatomical structures and displaying the results. We have a method to mine for additional synonyms for anatomical terms, that we will apply to additional texts, ideally after re-training the POS-tagger and chunker to better reflect the types of texts we are dealing with.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Similar Nomenclatures of developmental anatomy exist for other model organisms, including drosophila, zebrafish and human. These too will be used to index gene expression data for these organisms, eventually supporting cross-species comparison of gene expression patterns and further understanding of development. So we believe that developmental anatomy provides a rich domain in which to apply (and learn to extend) Natural Language tools and techniques.</Paragraph>
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