Literature-based Discovery [electronic resource] / edited by Peter Bruza, Marc Weeber.

General Outlook and Possibilities -- Literature-Based Discovery? The Very Idea -- The Place of Literature-Based Discovery in Contemporary Scientific Practice -- The Tip of the Iceberg: The Quest for Innovation at the Base of the Pyramid -- The ‘Open Discovery’ Challenge -- Where is the Discovery in Literature-Based Discovery? -- Methodology and Applications -- Analyzing LBD Methods using a General Framework -- Evaluation of Literature-Based Discovery Systems -- Factor Analytic Approach to Transitive Text Mining using Medline Descriptors -- Literature-Based Knowledge Discovery using Natural Language Processing -- Information Retrieval in Literature-Based Discovery -- Biomedical Application of Knowledge Discovery.

When Don Swanson hypothesized a connection between Raynaud’s phenomenon and dietary fish oil, the field of literature-based discovery (LBD) was born. During the subsequent two decades a steady stream of researchers have published articles about LBD and the field has made steady progress in laying foundations and creating an identity. LBD is an inherently multi-disciplinary enterprise where collaborations between the information and biomedical sciences are readily encountered. It is the hope and intention that this volume will plant a flag in the ground and inspire new researchers to the LBD challenge.