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Next Generation Search and Discovery Tools for the Web

Semantics for Semantics for Universal Universal

Search and Search and DiscoveryDiscovery

Endre Jofoldi and dr. Tamas DoszkocsEndre Jofoldi and dr. Tamas Doszkocs

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What is semantic What is semantic search?search?

Keywords vs. Concepts

“semantic search is a search or a question or an action that produces meaningful results, even when the retrieved items contain none of the query terms, or the search involves no query text at all ”

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What is NLMplus?What is NLMplus?

NLMplus is a semantic search and knowledge discovery application designed to tap into the rich content offerings of the National Library of Medicine in all areas of biomedicine and health

See NLMPlus

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What is NLMplus?What is NLMplus?

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Semantic Annotation ofSemantic Annotation of PubMed ReviewsPubMed Reviews

via the WebLib Part-of-Speech Tagger and Noun Phrase Chunker

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phrases> key phrases> key concepts > synonyms > normalized semantic indexes

19418823;TI:anthracycline cardiotoxicity after breast cancer treatment

TI_NORMALP: anthracycline breast canc cardiotoxicit treat

TP:anthracycline; CUI:C0003234; Anthracycline Antibiotics; SY: anthracyclines;

TP:cardiotoxicity; CUI:C0876994; cardiac toxicity;

TP:breast cancer; CUI:C0678222; Breast Carcinoma;SY: breast tumor;

TP:breast cancer treatment; CUI:C1511300; Breast Cancer Therapeutic Procedure;

Semantic Annotation of aSemantic Annotation of a PubMed PubMed Review TitleReview Title

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Semantic Searching of PubMed ReviewsSemantic Searching of PubMed Reviews

The WebLib Semantic Search Engine

Apache Solr enterprise search engine with WebLib’s Semantic Layer http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

Weblib Biomedical Knowledge Base and Query translator WBQT

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Scaling the Semantic Searching ofScaling the Semantic Searching of PubMed ReviewsPubMed Reviews

More than 1.6 million PubMed Reviews are semantically searchable on our test server:

Query: prostate cancer antigen 3

Query: transient cortical blindness after coronary angiography

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Results from NLM’s Results from NLM’s PubMedPubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=prostate%20cancer%20antigen%203

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PubMed Query: PubMed Query: transient cortical blindness transient cortical blindness following coronary angiographyfollowing coronary angiography

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More about the NLMplus More about the NLMplus

NLMplus Innovations

Universal SearchFlexible access to 59 NLM

databases

Semantic Search EngineSemantic searching of PubMed

Reviews

Biomedical Knowledge Basepowers “Explore and Discover”

powers the Semantic Search Engine

Intuitive User Interface

Wide Spectrum of NLM usersConsumers

Physicians

Biomedical researchers

Decision makers

NLM APIs, web services and software tools utilized by the NLMplus app

Entrez Programming Utilities

UMLS Terminology Services

Medlineplus Web Service

MetaMap API

SKR Web API

Read more about NLMplus

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Potential WebLib Semantic Search Potential WebLib Semantic Search and and Knowledge Base ApplicationsKnowledge Base ApplicationsCommon Problem: accessing heterogeneous databases

Meaningful Solution: semantic technologies

Biomedical Knowledge Base and Semantic Search

National Library of Medicine

National Institutes of Health

Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Government Departments and Agencies

Health Care

Web Knowledge Base and Semantic Search

Libraries and Research Organizations

Media and Content Companies

Educational Institutions

Businesses

The Web

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Endre Jofoldi [email protected] twitter: EndreJofoldi

Dr. Tamas [email protected]

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