how semantic technology helps researchers
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This presentation provides three cases studies as to how the Collexis technology helps a researcher to be more effective in their researcher.TRANSCRIPT
Darrell W. Gunter
Collexis an Elsevier Company
June 24, 2010
"How semantic technology enhances the productivity of scientific researchers."
Our Agenda For TodayThe Challenges of Scientific Research
The Collexis Technology
Case Studies
Professional Networks
Institutional Networks Johns Hopkins & Asklepios
Managing the Peer Review Process
Summation
The Facts
1,2,3
The Author is under great pressure!
Collexis Technology
KnowledgeBaseText Fingerprint
Collexis Fingerprint Engine
Collexis Knowledge Engine 7.0
Tokenizer Normalizer Abbreviation
expansion
DehyphenationLanguage detection
Coordination expansion
Part-of-Speech tagging
Entity recognition based on regular expressions
Noun phrase detection
Concept findingPart-of-speech based disambiguation of
thesaurus concepts
Exclude known idioms
Fingerprint aggregation
Collexis Knowledge Engine 7.0Modular NLP workbench – processing and analyzing of text
documents
Retrieval and aggregation engine – serving the application
layer
Collexis – selected references
American Institute of Physics Stanford University
Asklepios Kliniken Johnson & Johnson
Johns Hopkins University University of California, San
Franciscio
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard University
National Institutes of Health
Mayo Clinic
California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences (QB3),
The Wellcome TrustAlbert Einstein College of
Medicine
Explore instead of Searching!
Creating expert profiles from documents using semantic technologies
Document fingerprints aggregated to expert profiles!
BiomedExperts – more than 300,000+ registered users
Prepopulated network – based on PubMed
1.8 million precalculated experts
More than 24 million co-author relations between them
Representing over 3,500 institutions
From 190 countries
Growing each day between 500 and 1000 users
BME data used in other applications
Co-author based
networks
Geographical
mapping of the
co-author network
Johns Hopkins: The Issue! Connecting Experts
Fall retreat: Main issue how do they take advantage of the
university’s expertise and build collaboration
First solution – Repurpose a parking lot to be a coffee shop
for the JH community to grab a cup of Joe and find new
collaborators.
Outcome – Great coffee, great conversation but
collaboration did not take off.
The Collexis Solution – Expert Institutional Dashboard!
Same Application for the NIH
AsklepiosFacts and Figures
• Asklepios - Europe‘s largest health care provider
– 500.000 patients for inpatient care per year, 95 hospitals, 21.000 beds– 34.500 employees– Asklepios owns medical nursing and allied health schools– Home care programs and residential care programs
• Asklepios International – Pacific Health System – California– Greece, Athens Medical Center– University hospital in Shanghai: Joint Venture with Siemens and Tongji University
Optimize Workflows (e.g. Avoid interruptions
caused by knowledge search, retrieval, and application)
Distribute Expert Knowledge
(across multiple locations, time zones, medical
conditions)
Guide Workflows(e.g. Care Plans, Expert-Task Context Allocation)
Help Asklepios to know “what Asklepios knows”
Stimulate new Knowledge Acquisition Usage
Models
Why Knowledge Management?
• Patient, male, age of 62, needs a knee joint prosthesis due to Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Where is the best place to get it?
• Criteria which will be taken into account:– Geographical aspects– Recommendation of his GP– Publicly available information - mostly via Internet
• Strongest competitors: university hospitals (within the region)
Use Case 1 – Expert profiles
Asklepios Research Profiles
Expert Profile of Prof. Grifka
Make Internal Expertise available!
Provide a single point of search for all relevant content from
publishers!
Link internal expertise / experience and external
knowledge sources!
Provide a single point of search for all relevant content from
publishers!
Link internal expertise / experience and external
knowledge sources!
• Patient with lung cancer and reduced renal function
• Decision in chemotherapeutic drug is pending
• Preferred choice: Cisplatin as chemotherapeutic agent
• Open questions: can Cisplatin be used which has nephrotoxicity as a side effect?
Use Case 4 - External Resources and Internal Experience Use Case 4 - External Resources and Internal Experience
Search - Cisplatin shows the relevant publications from Springer, Elsevier, Thieme, OVID and other publishers
Asklepios Intelligent Digital Library
Opening an journal article…
…shows immediately similar publications colleagues
… and the names and expert profiles
Link External Knowledge and
Internal Expertise
Key Issues in STM IndustryPublishers / Editors
Finding the right reviewer
Expanding their pool of reviewers
Institutions
Determining what grants they should go after
Determining who within their organization is best to apply
Grant Funding Organizations
Analyzing the vast amount of grant applications submitted.
Determining who within the organization is best qualified to review the grant application
(known and unknown)
The Challenge for STM PublishersReceive thousands of manuscripts annually
Timely process to conduct the Peer Review Process
Timely process to determine who should review it.
Important for reviewer to free of conflicts of interest
Ethics of review process are paramount
Key Benefits Reviewer FinderFingerprint of manuscript - Clarity
Determine the best reviewer
Free of conflicts
More efficient and effective process
Ultimately increases profitability
The effectiveness of Semantic Technology
Aggregates the researcher's publications into a Fingerprint of weighted
relevant concepts
Expert Profiles (individual, institution, dept, country,etc.)
Shows co-author relationships (who publishes with whom)
Conduct search by key concepts
Match content from a variety of sources based on a key concept,
researcher, country, etc.
Determine expert for peer review, grant application, project, etc.
www.collexis.com
Thank you for your attention!
Darrell W. Gunter
[email protected], cell +1-973-454-3475