Award Date

1-1-2006

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Computer Science

First Committee Member

Kazem Taghva

Number of Pages

65

Abstract

Literature Based Discovery (LBD) was initially proposed by Don R. Swanson in 1980 as a method to establish relationships between disease and remedy from disjoint science literature. Consequently, he established a link between magnesium and migraines. Since then literature based discovery has been a subject of research and development for discovery in online medical publications. It has further been investigated in both chemistry and mathematics; In this thesis, we give an overview of LBD and the software tools necessary to automate this technique. We further provide an implementation of this technique that is intended to be used for computer science subject matter.

Keywords

Based; Discovery; Literature; Techniques; Tools

Controlled Subject

Computer science

File Format

pdf

File Size

1761.28 KB

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

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