Handling Floods of Literature: BioMedical Document Management

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Handling Floods of LiteratureBioMedical
Document Management

• Andrew Dolbey
• Center for Computational Pharmacology
• University of Colorado, School of Medicine
• Dec. 7, 2003

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The challengebiomedical literature explosion!!

• A piece of the more general information explosion
  in biomedicine
• high-throughput data, analyses
• MEDLINE volume increasing rapidly
• 650,000 new docs per year
• and rate is increasing
• New combinations of subfields and
  subspecializations

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Our responsemanaging the text data

• Develop tools that can (help) harness the
  literature explosion
• search interfaces that combine genes/proteins and
  categories of interest
• discover useful connections between documents
• Current and future directions
• better ranking of retrieval results
• generation of summaries of document collections
• discovery of emerging trends in collections