About the SMAFIRA project:

The SMAFIRA project aims to develop a search engine for supporting the retrieval of alternative methods to animal experiments. The methods behind our tool are described in the publications listed below. Please also check our FAQ page to get more information about the tool and methods behind.

Publications:

• Neves M, Klippert A, Knöspel F, Rudeck J, Stolz A, Ban Z, Becker M, Diederich K, Grune B, Kahnau P, Ohnesorge N, Pucher J, Schönfelder G, Bert B, Butzke D Automatic classification of experimental models in biomedical literature to support searching for alternative methods to animal experiments, Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2023 [full text and pdf]

• Neves M, Schadock I, Eusemann B, Schönfelder G, Bert B, Butzke D. Is the ranking of PubMed similar articles good enough? An evaluation of text similarity methods for three datasets, BioNLP Workshop, ACL'23, Toronto, Canada, 2023. [full text and pdf]

• Butzke D, Dulisch N, Dunst S, Steinfath M, Neves M, Mathiak B, Grune B. SMAFIRA-c: A benchmark text corpus for evaluation of approaches to relevance ranking and knowledge discovery in the biomedical domain, Preprint from Research Square, 2020. [full text and pfd]

• Neves M. Integration of the PubAnnotation ecosystem in the development of a web-based search tool for alternative methods, Genomics & Informatics, 18(2), 2020. [full text and pdf]

• Neves M, Butzke D, Grune B. Evaluation of Scientific Elements for Text Similarity in Biomedical Publications, 6th Workshop on Argument Mining, ACL'19, Florence, Italy, 2019. [pdf and bibtex]

• Neves M, Butzke D, Schönfelder G, Grune B. Bf3R at SemEval-2018 Task 7: Evaluating Two Relation Extraction Tools for Finding Semantic Relations in Biomedical Abstracts, Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, NA-ACL'18, New Orleans, EUA, 2018. [pdf and bibtex]

About the Bf3R:

The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) performs the function of the “German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R)” by conducting its own research and coordinating nationwide activities with the aim of,

• Reducing animal experiments to the necessary minimum and
• Ensuring the best possible protection for laboratory animals.

For this purpose, the work of the centre is intended to develop and refine applicable methods in accordance with the 3R principle, as well as stimulating research activities worldwide and promoting scientific dialogue. The German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals’ activities are part of the “A question of husbandry – New ways for more animal welfare”, an animal welfare initiative at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).

For more information: https://www.bf3r.de/en/about_the_bf3r-282533.html