Parse envo processes from redlist descriptions

[cmungall]

Redlist descriptions often contain strings describing mechanisms of habitat loss: coral bleaching, pollution, disease, predation, acidification, algal blooming, harvesting...

Many of these correspond to processes in ENVO or other OBO ontologies. It would be useful to use NER to detect these. We could then link these to ENVO-H classes, linking environments to processes that negatively affect them.

This would be an iterative process at first; we would need to gap-fill many processes before this is effective. However if we have the core processes then we can parse post-compositionally (e.g. the string 'destruction' next to 'reef')

(don't have Evangelos' github id so can't tag him here)

[pbuttigieg]

+1 Sounds great - they may even have some sort of semi-structured representation somewhere. I'll send an e-mail to find out.

@evangelospafilis

[pbuttigieg]

An interesting note on the IUCN RedList page for Copiapoa cinerascens

The major threat to this cactus is the visitors of Pan de Azúcar National Park that kick the clumps of plants for fun.