Semantic-based Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Literature

Fatiha Boubekeur, Sabrina Cherdioui, Yassine Djouadi

2013

Abstract

Knowledge discovery in literature aims at searching for hidden and previously unknown knowledge within the published literature. Swanson’s discoveries on fish oil/Raynaud disease or migraine/magnesium connections from MEDLINE, an online bibliographic biomedical database, exemplify such discovery. In this paper, we present a novel approach for literature-based knowledge discovery that relies on the joint use of (1) flexible information retrieval techniques and (2) concepts’ semantic relatedness to discover hidden connections between MeSH concepts in the published biomedical scientific literature. The approach has been tested by replicating the Swanson's early discovery on fish oil/Raynaud disease connection. The obtained results show the effectiveness of our approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Boubekeur F., Cherdioui S. and Djouadi Y. (2013). Semantic-based Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Literature . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-75-4, pages 37-44. DOI: 10.5220/0004546300370044

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir13,
author={Fatiha Boubekeur and Sabrina Cherdioui and Yassine Djouadi},
title={Semantic-based Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Literature},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={37-44},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004546300370044},
isbn={978-989-8565-75-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2013)
TI - Semantic-based Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Literature
SN - 978-989-8565-75-4
AU - Boubekeur F.
AU - Cherdioui S.
AU - Djouadi Y.
PY - 2013
SP - 37
EP - 44
DO - 10.5220/0004546300370044