Science and Technology Text Mining: Global Technology Watch

Abstract

Global Technology Watch is the assemblage of methodologies, both human-based and computer-based, required to understand the status of science and technology (S&T) globally. Since one important dissemination avenue for S&T is its literature, analysis of technical documentation is an important component of Technology Watch. This paper examines the role and utilization of the technical literature in S&T development and exploitation. Ready access to the results of all global research performed is required in order to:

Systematic acceleration of radical discovery and innovation in science and technology

“…Global expenditures for science and technology (S&T) range from $500B/year to $1T/year, depending on one's definition of S&T (Kostoff, 2003a). Federal agencies and industrial organizations with broad mission areas have eclectic S&T needs.…”

“…In some cases, the information in the Abstract is sufficiently vague that a credible relevance judgement cannot be made, and this degrades the quality of the final query. This Abstract quality problem results directly from the journal-database system being developer-driven rather than customer-driven, has been addressed elsewhere (Kostoff, 2003a, and will not be discussed further.…”

“…Cluster filtering, if it proves feasible for high fidelity results, would reduce the time intensity of the separation process. Again, this problem results from the technical community depending on developerdriven databases rather than customer-driven databases, has been addressed elsewhere (Kostoff, 2003a), and will not be discussed further.…”

“…One problem is that this sponsor database field appears only sporadically in semi-structured R&D databases. Again, this problem results from the technical community depending on developer-driven databases rather than customer-driven databases, has been addressed elsewhere for the case of the SCI (Kostoff, 2003a), and will not be discussed further.…”

Science and Technology Peer Review: GPRA

“…A fifth factor of equal importance is data awareness (Kostoff, 1999a(Kostoff, , 2000a(Kostoff, , 2000b(Kostoff, , 2001d(Kostoff, , 2003a(Kostoff, , 2003c. In all of the decision aids, placement of the technology of interest in the larger context of technology development and availability world-wide is an absolute necessity.…”