Literature-based discovery by lexical statistics
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Text mining: generating hypotheses from MEDLINE
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Using statistical and knowledge-based approaches for literature-based discovery
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Literature Mining: Towards Better Understanding of Autism
AIME '07 Proceedings of the 11th conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Literature mining method RaJoLink for uncovering relations between biomedical concepts
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Bisociative literature mining by ensemble heuristics
Bisociative Knowledge Discovery
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In this article we present a study which demonstrates the ability of the method RaJoLink to uncover candidate hypotheses for future discoveries from rare terms in existing literature. The method is inspired by Swanson's ABC model approach to finding hidden relations from a set of articles in a given domain. The main novelty is in a semi-automated way of suggesting which relations might have more potential for new discoveries and are therefore good candidates for further investigations. In our previous articles we reported on a successful application of the method RaJoLink in the autism domain. To support the evaluation of the method with a well-known example from the literature, we applied it to the migraine domain, aiming at reproducing Swanson's finding of magnesium deficiency as a possible cause of migraine. Only literature which was available at the time of the Swanson's experiment was used in our test. As described in this study, in addition to actually uncovering magnesium as a candidate for formulating the hypothesis, RaJoLink pointed also to interferon, interleukin and tumor necrosis factor as candidates for potential discoveries connecting them with migraine. These connections were not published in the titles contemporary to the ones used in the experiment, but have been recently reported in several scientific articles. This confirms the ability of the RaJoLink method to uncover seeds of future discoveries in existing literature by using rare terms as a beacon.