Bisociative Literature-Based Discovery

This monograph introduces the field of bisociative literature-based discovery (LBD) by first explaining the underlying LBD principles and techniques, followed by the presentation of bisociative LBD techniques and applications developed by the authors. LBD is a process of uncovering new knowledge by analyzing and connecting disparate pieces of information from different sources of literature. Selected techniques include conventional natural language processing (NLP) approaches, as well as outlier