Purpose： The late Don R. Swanson was well appreciated during his lifetime as Dean of the Graduate Library School at University of Chicago, as winner of the American Society for Information Science Award of Merit for ...Purpose： The late Don R. Swanson was well appreciated during his lifetime as Dean of the Graduate Library School at University of Chicago, as winner of the American Society for Information Science Award of Merit for 2000, and as author of many seminal articles. In this informal essay, I will give my personal perspective on Don＇s contributions to science, and outline some current and future directions in literature-based discovery that are rooted in concepts that he developed.Design/methodology/approach： Personal recollections and literature review. Findings： The Swanson A-B-C model of literature-based discovery has been successfully used by laboratory investigators analyzing their findings and hypotheses. It continues to be a fertile area of research in a wide range of application areas including text mining, drug repurposing, studies of scientific innovation, knowledge discovery in databases, and bioinformatics. Recently, additional modes of discovery that do not follow the A-B-C model have also been proposed and explored （e.g. so-called storytelling, gaps, analogies, link prediction, negative consensus, outliers, and revival of neglected or discarded research questions）. Research limitations： This paper reflects the opinions of the author and is not a comprehensive nor technically based review of literature-based discovery. Practical implications： The general scientific public is still not aware of the availability of tools for literature-based discovery. Our Arrowsmith project site maintains a suite of discovery tools that are free and open to the public （http：//arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu）, as does BITOLA which is maintained by Dmitar Hristovski （http：// http：//ibmi.mf.uni-lj.si/bitola）, and Epiphanet which is maintained by Trevor Cohen （http：//epiphanet.uth.tme.edu/）. Bringing user-friendly tools to the public should be a high priority, since even more than advancing basic research in informatics, it is vital that we ensure that scientists actually use discovery tools and that these are actually able to help them make experimental discoveries in the lab and in the clinic. Originality/value： This paper discusses problems and issues which were inherent in Don＇s thoughts during his life, including those which have not yet been fully taken up and studied systematically.展开更多
During a century-long time span,a remarkable array of Czech literary works had been introduced to China,marked by selections of different writers,genres,and themes.This study attempts to discuss what Czech literary wo...During a century-long time span,a remarkable array of Czech literary works had been introduced to China,marked by selections of different writers,genres,and themes.This study attempts to discuss what Czech literary works have been translated in China since its beginning in 1921.Besides the selection of texts for introduction,attention has also been given to the formats of their publication,the adoption of introduction approach,choice of intermediate languages,the numbers of different versions,and the frequency of their publication,as well as the textual and paratextual features of the end Chinese products.展开更多
Text visualization is concerned with the representation of text in a graphicalform to facilitate comprehension of large textual data. Its aim is to improve the ability tounderstand and utilize the wealth of text-based...Text visualization is concerned with the representation of text in a graphicalform to facilitate comprehension of large textual data. Its aim is to improve the ability tounderstand and utilize the wealth of text-based information available. An essential task inany scientific research is the study and review of previous works in the specified domain,a process that is referred to as the literature survey process. This process involves theidentification of prior work and evaluating its relevance to the research question. With theenormous number of published studies available online in digital form, this becomes acumbersome task for the researcher. This paper presents the design and implementationof a tool that aims to facilitate this process by identifying relevant work and suggestingclusters of articles by conceptual modeling, thus providing different options that enablethe researcher to visualize a large number of articles in a graphical easy-to-analyze form.The tool helps the researcher in analyzing and synthesizing the literature and building aconceptual understanding of the designated research area. The evaluation of the toolshows that researchers have found it useful and that it supported the process of relevantwork analysis given a specific research question, and 70% of the evaluators of the toolfound it very useful.展开更多
This paper presents the analysis of the text Arrivals,which serves as the first chapter in Rana Dasgupta's fiction Tokyo Cancelled.The analysis mainly focuses on the role of literature devices including foreground...This paper presents the analysis of the text Arrivals,which serves as the first chapter in Rana Dasgupta's fiction Tokyo Cancelled.The analysis mainly focuses on the role of literature devices including foregrounding,metaphor,and voice.Both advantages and limitations of the devices are concerned in the analysis.Nevertheless,with the skillful use of the literature techniques,the charm of the text is enhanced through lines.展开更多
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文摘Purpose： The late Don R. Swanson was well appreciated during his lifetime as Dean of the Graduate Library School at University of Chicago, as winner of the American Society for Information Science Award of Merit for 2000, and as author of many seminal articles. In this informal essay, I will give my personal perspective on Don＇s contributions to science, and outline some current and future directions in literature-based discovery that are rooted in concepts that he developed.Design/methodology/approach： Personal recollections and literature review. Findings： The Swanson A-B-C model of literature-based discovery has been successfully used by laboratory investigators analyzing their findings and hypotheses. It continues to be a fertile area of research in a wide range of application areas including text mining, drug repurposing, studies of scientific innovation, knowledge discovery in databases, and bioinformatics. Recently, additional modes of discovery that do not follow the A-B-C model have also been proposed and explored （e.g. so-called storytelling, gaps, analogies, link prediction, negative consensus, outliers, and revival of neglected or discarded research questions）. Research limitations： This paper reflects the opinions of the author and is not a comprehensive nor technically based review of literature-based discovery. Practical implications： The general scientific public is still not aware of the availability of tools for literature-based discovery. Our Arrowsmith project site maintains a suite of discovery tools that are free and open to the public （http：//arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu）, as does BITOLA which is maintained by Dmitar Hristovski （http：// http：//ibmi.mf.uni-lj.si/bitola）, and Epiphanet which is maintained by Trevor Cohen （http：//epiphanet.uth.tme.edu/）. Bringing user-friendly tools to the public should be a high priority, since even more than advancing basic research in informatics, it is vital that we ensure that scientists actually use discovery tools and that these are actually able to help them make experimental discoveries in the lab and in the clinic. Originality/value： This paper discusses problems and issues which were inherent in Don＇s thoughts during his life, including those which have not yet been fully taken up and studied systematically.
文摘During a century-long time span,a remarkable array of Czech literary works had been introduced to China,marked by selections of different writers,genres,and themes.This study attempts to discuss what Czech literary works have been translated in China since its beginning in 1921.Besides the selection of texts for introduction,attention has also been given to the formats of their publication,the adoption of introduction approach,choice of intermediate languages,the numbers of different versions,and the frequency of their publication,as well as the textual and paratextual features of the end Chinese products.
文摘Text visualization is concerned with the representation of text in a graphicalform to facilitate comprehension of large textual data. Its aim is to improve the ability tounderstand and utilize the wealth of text-based information available. An essential task inany scientific research is the study and review of previous works in the specified domain,a process that is referred to as the literature survey process. This process involves theidentification of prior work and evaluating its relevance to the research question. With theenormous number of published studies available online in digital form, this becomes acumbersome task for the researcher. This paper presents the design and implementationof a tool that aims to facilitate this process by identifying relevant work and suggestingclusters of articles by conceptual modeling, thus providing different options that enablethe researcher to visualize a large number of articles in a graphical easy-to-analyze form.The tool helps the researcher in analyzing and synthesizing the literature and building aconceptual understanding of the designated research area. The evaluation of the toolshows that researchers have found it useful and that it supported the process of relevantwork analysis given a specific research question, and 70% of the evaluators of the toolfound it very useful.
文摘This paper presents the analysis of the text Arrivals,which serves as the first chapter in Rana Dasgupta's fiction Tokyo Cancelled.The analysis mainly focuses on the role of literature devices including foregrounding,metaphor,and voice.Both advantages and limitations of the devices are concerned in the analysis.Nevertheless,with the skillful use of the literature techniques,the charm of the text is enhanced through lines.
