NLP for Bioinformatics --- Toward Knowledge Integration and Management
Toru Hisamitsu
Business situation of bioinformatics has been drastically changing.
Knowledge management, however, has been consistently playing an important
role and is becoming one of a central technology for biomedical research.
Confronted with the exponential growth of text data, text management is a
major part of knowledge management. Among various technologies, our emphasis
is on associative search and text mining: associative search dynamically
relates documents in different databases that contain a hundred millions of
documents, and our text mining system extracts, for instance,
protein-protein interactions from a large collection of documents such as
MEDLINE, which contains twelve million abstracts. The extracted data are
visualized in various ways so that a human can comprehend them intuitively.
Lastly we briefly introduce research of computational terminology, which is
critical to the quality of the text management system.