2014 AutomatedHypothesisGenerationba

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Keeping up with the ever-expanding flow of data and publications is untenable and poses a fundamental bottleneck to scientific progress. Current search technologies typically find many relevant documents, but they do not extract and organize the information content of these documents or suggest new scientific hypotheses based on this organized content. We present an initial case study on KnIT, a prototype system that mines the information contained in the scientific literature, represents it explicitly in a queriable network, and then further reasons upon these data to generate novel and experimentally testable hypotheses. KnIT combines entity detection with neighbor-text feature analysis and with graph-based diffusion of information to identify potential new properties of entities that are strongly implied by existing relationships. We discuss a successful application of our approach that mines the published literature to identify new protein kinases that phosphorylate the protein tumor suppressor p53. Retrospective analysis demonstrates the accuracy of this approach and ongoing laboratory experiments suggest that kinases identified by our system may indeed phosphorylate p53. These results establish proof of principle for automated hypothesis generation and discovery based on text mining of the scientific literature.

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 AuthorvolumeDate ValuetitletypejournaltitleUrldoinoteyear
2014 AutomatedHypothesisGenerationbaYing Chen
Scott Spangler
Angela D. Wilkins
Benjamin J. Bachman
Meena Nagarajan
Tajhal Dayaram
Peter Haas
Sam Regenbogen
Curtis R. Pickering
Austin Comer
Jeffrey N. Myers
Ioana Stanoi
Linda Kato
Ana Lelescu
Jacques J. Labrie
Neha Parikh
Andreas Martin Lisewski
Lawrence Donehower
Olivier Lichtarge
Automated Hypothesis Generation based on Mining Scientific Literature10.1145/2623330.26236672014