- Title
- Extracting, Representing and Mining Semantic Metadata from Text: Facilitating Knowledge Discovery in Biomedicine
- Author
- Ramakrishnan, Cartic
- Degree
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Wright State University,
Computer Science and Engineering PhD, 2008.
- Committee / Advisors
- Amit Sheth PhD (Advisor)
Michael Raymer PhD (Committee Member)
Shaojun Wang PhD (Committee Member)
Guozhu Dong PhD (Committee Member)
Thaddeaus Tarpey PhD (Committee Member)
Vasant Honavar PhD (Committee Member)
- Pages
- 147p.
- Abstract
- The information access paradigm offered by most contemporary text information systems is a search-and-sift paradigm where users have to manually glean and aggregate relevant information from the large number of documents that are typically returned in response to keyword queries. Expecting the users to glean and aggregate information has lead to several inadequacies in these information systems. Owing to the size of many text databases, search-and-sift is a very tedious often requiring repeated keyword searches refining or generalizing queries terms. A more serious limitation arises from the lack of automated mechanisms to aggregate content across different documents to discover new knowledge. This dissertation focuses on processing text to assign semantic interpretations to its content (extracting Semantic metadata) and the design of algorithms and heuristics to utilize the extracted semantic metadata to support knowledge discovery operations over text content. Contributions in extracting semantic metadata in this dissertation cover the extraction of compound entities and complex relationships connecting entities. Extraction results are represented using a standard Semantic Web representation language (RDF) and are manually evaluated for accuracy. Knowledge discovery algorithms presented herein operate on RDF data. To further improve access mechanisms to text content, applications supporting semantic browsing and semantic search of text are presented.
- Subject Headings
- Computer science
- Keywords
- Semantic Web; Text Mining; Knowledge Discovery from Text; Information Extraction
Document number: wright1222021939.
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