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LHNCBC-2000-061
Text-Based Discovery in Biomedicine: The Architecture of the DAD-System
Weeber M, Klein H, Aronson AR, Mork JG, de Jong-van den Berg LT, Vos R
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000 ;():903-7.
Current scientific research takes place in highly specialized contexts with poor communication between disciplines as a likely consequence. Knowledge from one discipline may be useful for the other without researchers knowing it. As scientific publications are a condensation of this knowledge, literature-based discovery tools may help the individual scientist to explore new useful domains. We report on the development of the DAD-system, a concept-based Natural Language Processing system for PubMed citations that provides the biomedical researcher such a tool. We describe the general architecture and illustrate its operation by a simulation of a well-known text-based discovery: The favorable effects of fish oil on patients suffering from Raynaud's disease [1].
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