Comments on: Mind maps http://mendicantbug.com/2008/07/12/mind-maps/ Wanderings into computational linguistics, science, social media and life... Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Martin Griffies http://mendicantbug.com/2008/07/12/mind-maps/#comment-1018 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:59:34 +0000 http://ealdent.wordpress.com/?p=678#comment-1018 Sorry about the delay – but most of the information is available on our website, ariadnegenomics.com .

Basically, if from within a corpus a series of facts is extracted:

A–B
A–C
B–D etc

Then we construct a pathway A-B-C-D
We use ontology to represent synonyms by their canonical forms, and to resolve terms with multiple entities.

]]> By: Jason Adams http://mendicantbug.com/2008/07/12/mind-maps/#comment-949 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:37:31 +0000 http://ealdent.wordpress.com/?p=678#comment-949 Very interesting! Any references available?

]]> By: Martin Griffies http://mendicantbug.com/2008/07/12/mind-maps/#comment-948 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:32:43 +0000 http://ealdent.wordpress.com/?p=678#comment-948 Hi,
“Here’s an exciting potential computational linguistics task: construct a mind map automatically from text. I can think of a few ways to get started…”

In the biomedical domain, Ariadne does just that.
We use NLP techniques to extract relationships from text, using NP1-V-NP2 triplets to infer facts, and controlled vocabularies to render the terms into a canonical form. (Some genes may have >20 synonyms)

We then network these facts into biochemical / biomedical pathways – which are effectively mind maps.

Best regards,
Martin

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