semantics for universal search and discovery
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WebLib has recently won a prestigious U.S. challenge.gov award with its NLMplus entry, a large scale semantic search and knowledge discovery application that makes innovative use of the National Library of Medicine’s vast collection of biomedical data and services.The NLMplus app (http://nlmplus.com) combines a number of leading-edge semantic knowledge resources and technologies, such as a biomedical knowledge base, a semantic search engine, a distributed search engine, and a variety of smart content analysis and discovery services. Users can concurrently access 60 NLM databases to find trusted information ranging from consumer health topics to drugs and from news to clinical trials and translational medicine. One of the important innovations of NLMplus is WebLib’s Semantic Search Engine, which typically produces relevant search results with improved precision and recall from 1.6 million PubMed Review articles, which are semantically indexed and searched on a WebLib server. The NLMplus application also sends conceptually enhanced user queries to NLM’s PubMed system of more than 21 million citations from the biomedical literature, life science journals, and online books.Providing flexible access to heterogeneous databases is a common challenge in medical libraries, biomedical research institutions and the health care industry. The same is true for non-biomedical content and applications. WebLib’s domain independent semantic indexing and searching of local databases, in combination with universal search and discovery solutions for free and fee-based content allows all types of organizations to better serve their diverse user communities, including the public, researchers, professionals, and policy and decision makers.TRANSCRIPT
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
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 ”
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
What is NLMplus?What is NLMplus?
Semantic Annotation ofSemantic Annotation of PubMed ReviewsPubMed Reviews
via the WebLib Part-of-Speech Tagger and Noun Phrase Chunker
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
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
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
Results from NLM’s Results from NLM’s PubMedPubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=prostate%20cancer%20antigen%203
PubMed Query: PubMed Query: transient cortical blindness transient cortical blindness following coronary angiographyfollowing coronary angiography
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
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
