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Literature-based Discovery

  • First coherent book on literature-based discovery
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Information Science and Knowledge Management (ISKM)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. General Outlook and Possibilities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Place of Literature-Based Discovery in Contemporary Scientific Practice

      • Neil R. Smalheiser, Vetle I. Torvik
      Pages 13-22
    3. The ‘Open Discovery’ Challenge

      • Jonathan D. Wren
      Pages 39-55
  3. Methodology and Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Analyzing LBD Methods using a General Framework

      • A. K. Sehgal, X. Y. Qiu, P. Srinivasan
      Pages 75-100
    3. Evaluation of Literature-Based Discovery Systems

      • M. Yetisgen-Yildiz, W. Pratt
      Pages 101-113
    4. Literature-Based Knowledge Discovery using Natural Language Processing

      • D. Hristovski, C. Friedman, T. C. Rindflesch, B. Peterlin
      Pages 133-152
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 193-196

About this book

When Don Swanson hypothesized a connection between Raynaud’s phenomenon and dietary fish oil, the field of literature-based discovery (LBD) was born. During the subsequent two decades a steady stream of researchers have published articles about LBD and the field has made steady progress in laying foundations and creating an identity. LBD is an inherently multi-disciplinary enterprise where collaborations between the information and biomedical sciences are readily encountered. It is the hope and intention that this volume will plant a flag in the ground and inspire new researchers to the LBD challenge.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Peter Bruza

  • Rockville, USA

    Marc Weeber

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Literature-based Discovery

  • Editors: Peter Bruza, Marc Weeber

  • Series Title: Information Science and Knowledge Management

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68690-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-68685-9Published: 29 August 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08819-3Published: 23 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-68690-3Published: 17 August 2008

  • Series ISSN: 1568-1300

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 198

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

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