8. The method of claim 1 wherein performance of a second one of the quality assurance checks comprises: determining whether one of the plurality of annotations is consistent with the ontology; and configuring the list of flagged annotations to include one of the plurality of annotations determined to be inconsistent with the ontology.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein performance of a second one of the quality assurance checks comprises: determining whether one of the plurality of annotations is consistent with the ontology; and configuring the list of flagged annotations to include one of the plurality of annotations determined to be inconsistent with the ontology. 9. The method of claim 8 wherein determining whether one of the plurality of annotations is inconsistent with the ontology comprises at least one of: determining the annotation includes a hypernym that is not defined in the ontology; and determining that the annotation includes a nested hierarchy of hypernym tags that does not conform to a relationship defined in the ontology.