[out there] processing taxon identifiers via NLP

[gottacatchenall]

A "moonshot" idea I had for this library would be implementing rudimentary natural-language-processing (NLP) methods for processing taxon identifiers.

As an example, if the input contains ["A. p. aciculatus", "ponderosa pine", "Agelaius phoeniceus", "A. phoeniceus californicus", "red winged blackbird", "Agelaius xanthomus", "Pinus ponderosa", "P. ponderosa"] we would want a cleaning function to return ids in NCBI associated with the coarsest resolution id, e.g. ["Agelaius", "Pinus ponderosa"]

Clearly a false-postive here could be analysis-breaking so reporting some degree of confidence in
each resolved species label would also be necessary.

Just something to ruminate on

[gottacatchenall]

https://github.com/nleguillarme/taxonerd could be relevant