KonneXSALT: First Steps Towards a Semantic Claim Federation Infrastructure

Abstract

Abstract. Dissemination, an important phase of scientific research, can be seen as a communication process between scientists. They expose and support their findings, while discussing claims stated in related scientific publications. However, due to the increasing number of publications, finding a starting point for such a discussion represents a real challenge. At same time, browsing can also be difficult since the communication spans accross multiple publications on the open Web. In this paper we propose a semantic claim federation infrastructure, named KonneX SALT , as a solution for both issues mentioned above: (i) finding claims in scientific publications, and (ii) providing support for browsing by starting with a claim and then following the links in an argumentation discourse network (ADN) (in our case, by making use of transclusion). In addition, we join the web of linked open data, by linking the metadata contained in KonneX SALT with some of the known repositories of scientific publications.

CORAAL – Towards Deep Exploitation of Textual Resources in Life Sciences

“…In this paper, we have presented CORAAL -a unique combination of a publication repository enhanced by semantic links [3] and an engine for automated extraction, integration and exploitation of knowledge contained in the publication texts [2]. We have shown that the tool has promising results in real-world tasks related to biomedical literature search.…”

“…The publications, their meta-data and full-text were stored and indexed within our KONNEX framework for linked publication data processing [3]. After parsing the input XML article representations, the XML meta-data and structural annotations were quite straightforwardly integrated in the KONNEX RDF repository.…”

“…Approaches tackling problems related to those addressed by the core technologies powering CORAAL are analysed in [2,3]. Here we offer an overview of systems targeting similar problems to those tackled by our framework.…”

“…We have recently researched a novel framework for effortless exploitation of automatically extracted knowledge that makes use of similarity-based knowledge representation and respective light-weight inference services [2]. We combined the framework with our repository for semantically inter-linked publications [3], delivering a prototype knowledge-based publication search engine -CORAAL (COntent extended by emeRgent and Asserted Annotations of Linked publication data). The tool essentially extracts asserted publication meta-data together with the knowledge implicitly present in the respective text, integrates the emergent content with existing domain knowledge and exposes it via a multiple-perspective search&browse interface.…”

Knowledge-based search for oncological literature

“…The tool is based on a recently developed framework for more efficient exploitation of automatically extracted knowledge [17]. We combined the framework with a repository for semantically inter-linked publications [12] in order to provide for comprehensive combination of full-text and knowledgebased search.…”