Using Piccolo XML parser for parsing MEDLINE biomedical documents in XML format

Although Jdom XML parser is easy to understand and implement, it is suitable to only small XML files. The reason is that Jdom XML parser stores the whole XML structure into computer memory. In order to deal with large XML files, we need another kind of XML parser. One that we can use is Piccolo [...]

Literature reading: Knowledge discovery across documents through concept chain queries

Title: Knowledge discovery across documents through concept chain queries
Authors: Wei Jin and Rohini K. Srihari
Publisher: Sixth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining – Workshops (ICDMW’06), IEEE Computer Society, 2006.
In this paper, the authors combine Srinivasan’s topic profile and closed discovery algorithm with concept chain technique for literature-based hypothesis discovery. The goal is to create, for each semantic [...]