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Using Concepts in Literature-based Discovery: Simulating Swanson's Raynaud-Fish Oil and Migraine-Magnesium Discoveries.
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Weeber, Marc; Klein, Henny; de Jong-van den Berg, Lolkje T. W.; Vos, Rein – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Proposes a two-step model of discovery in which new scientific hypotheses can be generated and subsequently tested. Applying advanced natural language processing techniques to find biomedical concepts in text, the model is implemented in a versatile interactive discovery support tool. This tool is used to successfully simulate Don R. Swanson's…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Discovery Processes, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
Natural Language Processing in Support of Decision-Making: Phrases and Part-of-Speech Tagging.
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Losee, Robert M. – Information Processing & Management, 2001
Increasing information retrieval performance using phrases and part-of-speech (POS) information is one example of a type of decision-making performance that is improved when using this linguistic information. The relative effectiveness of using multi-term phrases as opposed to individual terms is shown, as well as the relative worth of POS tagged…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Form Classes (Languages), Improvement, Information Retrieval