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. 2002:835–839.

Research for research: tools for knowledge discovery and visualization.

Erik M Van Mulligen 1, Christiaan Van Der Eijk 1, Jan A Kors 1, Bob J A Schijvenaars 1, Barend Mons 1
PMCID: PMC2244229  PMID: 12463942

Abstract

This paper describes a method to construct from a set of documents a spatial representation that can be used for information retrieval and knowledge discovery. The proposed method has been implemented in a prototype system and allows the researcher to browse interactively and in real-time a network of relationships obtained from a set of full text articles. These relationships are combined with the potential relationships between concepts as defined in the UMLS semantic network. The browser allows the user to select a seed term and find all related concepts, to find a path between concepts (hypothesis testing), and to retrieve the references to documents or database entries that support the relationship between concepts.

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