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PeterBruza July2007 MarcWeeber v Contents Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Part I General Outlook and Possibilities Literature-Based Discovery? The Very Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D. R. Swanson The Place of Literature-Based Discovery in Contemporary Scienti?c Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 NeilR. SmalheiserandVetleI. Torvik The Tip of the Iceberg: The Quest for Innovation at the Base of the Pyramid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 M. D. GordonandN. F. Awad The 'Open Discovery' Challenge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 JonathanD. Wren Where is the Discovery in Literature-Based Discovery?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 R. N. Kostoff Part I Methodology and Applications Analyzing LBD Methods using a General Framework. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 A. K. Sehgal, X. Y. Qiu, andP. Srinivasan Evaluation of Literature-Based Discovery Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 M. Yetisgen-YildizandW. Pratt vii viii Contents Factor Analytic Approach to Transitive Text Mining using Medline Descriptors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 J. StegmannandG. Grohmann Literature-Based Knowledge Discovery using Natural Language Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 D. Hristovski, C. Friedman, T. C. Rind?esch, andB. Peterlin Information Retrieval in Literature-Based Discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 W. Hersh Biomedical Application of Knowledge Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 A. 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