What fraction of articles can you expect to be available for text mining from Pubmed Central?

Posted on May 20, 2016 in text mining • Tagged with text mining, ras model

In a previous post, I described assembling sets of Pubmed references relevant to 227 genes in the Ras pathway. The next problem was getting access to mineable content.

The most readily available source of content for text mining by researchers is the Pubmed Central Open Access article subset, and most …

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Assembling a text-mining corpus for the Ras pathway

Posted on May 19, 2016 in text mining • Tagged with text mining, ras model

Over the last year and a half or so I've been involved in the Big Mechanism program sponsored by DARPA. The practical goal of this program is to develop software systems to extract facts from the scientific literature by text mining and, from these facts, assemble causal, mechanistic models that …

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