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A semantic-based approach for mining undiscovered public knowledge from biomedical literature
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A semantic-based approach for mining undiscovered public knowledge from biomedical literature

Xiaohua Hu, Guangrong Li, I Yoo, Xiaodan Zhang and Xuheng Xu
2005 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, v 1, pp 22-27
2005

Abstract

Diseases Educational institutions Humans Information science Magnesium Marine animals Ontologies Petroleum Prototypes Unified modeling language
The problem of mining undiscovered public knowledge from biomedical literature was exemplified by Swanson's pioneering work on Raynaud disease/fish-oil discovery in 1986. Since then, there have been many approaches to mine undiscovered public knowledge from biomedical literature. This paper presents a semantic-based approach for mining undiscovered public knowledge from biomedical literature. The method takes advantages of the biomedical ontologies, MeSH and UMLS, as the source of semantic knowledge. A prototype system Biomedical Semantic-based Knowledge Discovery System (Bio-SbKDS) is designed to uncover novel hypothesis/connections hidden in the biomedical literature. Using the semantic types and semantic relations of the biomedical concepts, Bio-SbKDS can identify the relevant concepts collected from Medline and generate the novel hypothesis between these concepts. Bio-SbKDS successfully replicates Dr. Swanson's two famous discoveries: Raynaud disease/fish oil and migraine/magnesium. Compared with previous approaches, our method searches much less articles, generates much less but more relevant novel hypotheses, requires much less human intervention in the discovery procedure.

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