A comprehensive and quantitative comparison of text-mining in 15 million full-text articles versus their corresponding abstracts.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005962 and PMC identifier 5831415.
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Abstract
Across academia and industry, text mining has become a popular strategy for keeping up with the rapid growth of the scientific literature. Text mining of the scientific literature has mostly been carried out on collections of abstracts, due to their availability. Here we present an analysis of 15 million English scientific full-text articles published during the period 1823-2016. We describe the development in article length and publication sub-topics during these nearly 250 years. We showcase the potential of text mining by extracting published protein-protein, disease-gene, and protein subcellular associations using a named entity recognition system, and quantitatively report on their accuracy using gold standard benchmark data sets. We subsequently compare the findings to corresponding results obtained on 16.5 million abstracts included in MEDLINE and show that text mining of full-text articles consistently outperforms using abstracts only.
Medical subject headings
- Abstracting and Indexing
- Data Mining
- Information Storage and Retrieval
- MEDLINE