Finding Relationships in Texts from Diverse Fields

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Finding relationships in texts from diverse fields

Catherine Blake, an assistant professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, has developed a method for retrieving, analyzing, and finding relationships in published research texts from multiple disciplines. “Claim Jumping through Scientific Literature,” as it is called, enables researchers in a given field to collect relevant published information from other fields of study. Blake’s team analyzed 162,000 documents from a variety of scientific fields using a process called “dependency parsing.”...International Science Grid This Week, May 28