Knowledge base construction from scientific literature
Author
Wang, HanOther Contributors
Fox, Peter A.; Hendler, James A.; Ji, Heng; Stephan, Eric; Lewis, Daniel;Date Issued
2016-12Subject
Multidisciplinary scienceDegree
PhD;Terms of Use
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Knowledge Bases (KBs) have become a functional utility as a repository of information for both humans and software agents to seek confirmed facts about the world. With the wide-ranging application of KBs, automatically constructing either generic KBs or domain-specific KBs using information extracted from multiple sources such as web pages, reports, and research papers has grown into an interesting task for both academia and industry.; SciKB adopts an open information extraction approach to extract fact triples from the input documents, then jointly learns the distributed representations of the involved entities and relations in an unsupervised fashion, and finally utilizes the obtained representations to organize the entities and relations into hierarchical clusters. Experiments are conducted to evaluate each component of the SciKB pipeline and the results demonstrate its effectiveness in two scientific domains: Biomedical Science and Earth Science.; This dissertation presents SciKB, an end-to-end Knowledge Base Construction system, which takes in a collection of research articles within a certain scientific domain and outputs a domain-specific KB. The resultant KB contains fact triples extracted from the input documents as well as hierarchical clusters of the entities and relations involved in the facts. Each cluster aggregates entities or relations with similar semantic meanings, and the hierarchies serve as an implicit schema of the KB.;Description
December 2016; School of ScienceDepartment
Multidisciplinary Science Program;Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NYRelationships
Rensselaer Theses and Dissertations Online Collection;Access
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