BT102: Cycles of Scientific Investigation in Discourse - Machine Reading Methods for the Primary Research Contributions of a Paper
Title | BT102: Cycles of Scientific Investigation in Discourse - Machine Reading Methods for the Primary Research Contributions of a Paper |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2016 |
Authors | Burns GA, de Waard A, Dasigi P, Hovy EH |
Conference Name | International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016) |
Date Published | 11/30/16 |
Publisher | CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747 |
Other Numbers | Vol-1747|urn:nbn:de:0074-1747-1 |
Abstract | We describe a novel approach to machine reading of the primary scientific literature. We treat a description of an experiment as a discourse, viewing a scientific corpus not merely into a collection of documents, but also an extended conversation formed by the collective set of experiments, their introductions and interpretations. This paper introduces this approach as a methodology called ‘Cycles of Scientific Investigation in Discourse’ (CoSID). In CoSID, we capture the central conceptual structure of a paper as a series of nested reasoning loops, composed of passages in results sections, which describe individual research findings. We ground our work with a number of worked examples based on data from the MINTACT and Pathway Logic databases, and illustrate the idea in the context of machine-enable biocuration. |
URL | http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1747/BT102_ICBO2016.pdf |