Investigation of the changes of temporal topic profiles in biomedical literature

  • Authors:
  • Wei Huang;Shouyang Wang;Lean Yu;Hongtao Ren

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, WuHan, China;Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan

  • Venue:
  • KDLL'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Knowledge Discovery in Life Science Literature
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We represent research themes by the temporal topic profiles based on MeSH terms from MEDLINE citations. By comparing the differences of the temporal profiles for the same topic at the two different periods, we find that the temporal profiles for a topic at the new period may result from three kinds of concepts replacements of the temporal profiles at the old period, namely broad replacement, parallel replacement and narrow replacement. Such findings provide new ways to generate potential relationships from the current biomedical literature.