1/2/2019 Literature thesis: Building a framework for retrieving information on multispecies interactions from published literature

Literature thesis: Building a

framework for retrieving
information on multispecies
interactions from published
literature

Gabriel Muñoz

2017-04-28

Abstract
The generation of new global hypothesis, destined to understand our
current global biodiversity crisis, requires a large amount of
information. Our knowledge in Ecology is principally contained in the
form of published articles. This global body of literature holds a
significant amount of primary data on species distributions and
interactions across a large geographical and temporal scale. In this
literature review, I explore the use of different computational tools in
text mining and machine learning to facilitate the task of search and
classify articles with information on species interactions from

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1/2/2019 Literature thesis: Building a framework for retrieving information on multispecies interactions from published literature

published literature. Semantic relatedness between unrelated

scientific articles partially limits automatic classification of literature,
but further research is needed. Automatic extraction of specific
entities such as species names or geographical locations reduces the
effort of a researcher to manually identify articles of interest from a
pool of literature. In general, text mining and machine learning
frameworks applied to Ecology offers a new alternative to conducting
literature reviews in an efficient and reproducible way. Open Access
and free mining access to journals will definitely improve the
implementation of such frameworks and will lead towards a general
global understanding of biodiversity on Earth

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