16.01.2014 BiolDiv

Meeting 16 January 2014, 11:00 am

Google Hangout

Present: Edward, Anton, Fabio, GP

Notes

BiOnym Performance

GP presents the calculated performance of the BiOnym workflow, with variating number of outputs and of using the two available parsers (Dima's GNI and Fabio's SIMPLE). The report highlight the following points:

• BiOnym outperforms the WoRMS taxamatch in all the configurations
• the WF using the SIMPLE parser by Fabio gains better performance than the one using the GNI parser
• the WF using the SIMPLE parser and only the Levenstein distance is the best system to recognize the automatically generated species names (this is not true for the real names)

Fabio explains the rationale behind the different behaviour between the SIMPLE and the GNI parser: the GNI parser is better on complex, but well formatted, inputs. Edward asserts this behaviour is not surprising. Edward suggests to have contacts with other people involved in Taxa matching to search for collaborations.

Anton asks to have one BiOnym recognizer available both on the FAO and on the i-Marine website

Next Steps

GP has to:

• double check the WoRMS Taxamatch performance (GP just noticed there was a mistake in the description of the WoRMS WebService which could have influenced the evaluation)
• produce a matrix reporting the amount of complementary errors made by two pairs of Matchers inside BiOnym (to estimate to which extent Levenshtein can substitute the entire WF)
• introduce Beam-Search options on the Statistical Manager
• develop a local\fast version of BiOnym to be used from the websites

Fabio has to:

• check with FIN if their implementation of GSAy with the YASMEEN Framework can be substituted to the currently running one

FIN has to:

• give updates about the status of the BiOnym web interface
• give a feedback about the effectiveness of their GSAy implementation with the YASMEEN framework

Next meeting

Thursday 23 January 2014, 11 am.