DocumentCode :
3455408
Title :
A semantic approach to involve Twitter in LBD efforts
Author :
Bhattacharya, Surya ; Srinivasan, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
fYear :
2012
fDate :
4-7 Oct. 2012
Firstpage :
248
Lastpage :
253
Abstract :
Literature-based Discovery (LBD) refers to the task of finding hidden, unknown or neglected relationships that may be uncovered using biomedical text. While traditional LBD primarily focuses on MEDLINE records for unearthing such relationships, recent studies have shown the applicability of contemporary textual resources such as electronic medical records or online medical message boards for similar purposes. In this paper we highlight yet another source for LBD, i.e., Twitter data. We focus on the use of Twitter as a new resource for finding hypotheses - both novel and slightly studied. Using a set of drug and disease names as starting points we retrieve thousands of Twitter messages which are then processed for semantic information to mine several hundred biomedical relationships which we call probes. Manual inspection of a handful of these probes reveals instances where tweets strongly support a hypothesis for which no evidence can be found in PubMed. In other cases, we find very few related PubMed records supporting/rejecting such Twitter-mined probes. Overall, we show the importance and usefulness of Twitter for LBD efforts.
Keywords :
diseases; drugs; medical computing; social networking (online); text analysis; LBD efforts; MEDLINE records; PubMed records; Twitter; Twitter-mined probes; biomedical text; contemporary textual resources; disease names; drug names; electronic medical records; literature-based discovery; online medical message boards; semantic approach; Diabetes; Diseases; Drugs; Media; Probes; Semantics; Twitter; Literature-based discovery; Twitter; public health informatics; semantic information;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2746-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2744-2
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/BIBMW.2012.6470311
Filename :
6470311
Link To Document :
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