Literature-Based Discovery by Lexical Statistics.

Lindsay, Robert K.; Gordon, Michael D.

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ERIC Number: EJ591661

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Publication Date: 1999

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Literature-Based Discovery by Lexical Statistics.

Lindsay, Robert K.; Gordon, Michael D.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v50 n7 p574-87 May 15 1999

Reports the results of experiments with MEDLINE that used lexical statistics such as word-frequency counts to discover hidden connections in medical literature. Discusses problems with relying on bibliographic citations or standard indexing methods to establish a relationship between topics that might profitably be explored by scientific research. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Citations (References), Computational Linguistics, Indexing, Medical Research, Semantics, Statistical Analysis, Word Frequency

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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