Scientific Profile Generation

K-Extractor™: Scientific landscape at a glance

Customer Scenario

Need

Know the top contributors in the virology and microbiology field, their current work, their affiliations, and who is funding their work.

Big Data: Volume, Variety & Velocity. Thousands of new papers are published every day, collecting this information and keeping it up to date is no longer feasible to do by hand.

Challenge

 

Lymba's Solution

Solution

K-Extractor™ automatically extracts knowledge centered on authors, their research topics and research funding to generate consolidated interlinked profiles for each person.

Input

Thousands of scientific research publications in PDF format, web pages with bio pages, conference schedules.

Scientific profiles - creating in depth "baseball cards" for each person with the following information:

  • Employment and affiliation history

  • Projects, co-workers and co-authors

  • Funding and awards

  • Education

  • Topics of interest

  • Family and personal information

  • Contact information

Each item on profile has a direct link to supporting documents from input collections. Profiles are connected to each other with hypertext links.

Output

 

Key Features

  • Document structure recognition for PDFs and other complex file formats to detect the following elements:

– title, authors and affiliations

– headers and footers

– section titles and content

– citations and references

– tables and illustrations

  • Deep semantic processing of the text fragments to extract the concepts and semantic relations of interest.

  • Resolving aliases of people, organizations and other concepts: spelling variations, short forms, synonyms, etc. Merging concepts together enables the combination of knowledge from multiple sources.

  • Extracted knowledge is saved into an RDF store that is available to the customer. Lastly, the RDF store is automatically queried to generate connected profiles for each person mentioned in the input collection.

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