Identification of the features of scientific discoveries in biomedical articles
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https://doi.org/10.62758/re.v1i4.90Keywords:
Knowledge Representation, Scientific Communication, Scientific Discovery, OntologyAbstract
We report here a methodological proposal consisting of the comparison between the content of scientific articles, represented by the conclusion of the article in a format as phenomenon “1”- Relation – Phenomenon “2”, with the content of a Web public ontology. This comparison was performed in order to identify traces of scientific discovery reported by the article even before the reference in the literature. Seventy-five biomedical articles were manually analyzed. The results indicate that if the contents of the conclusion of an article are poorly represented in the ontology, this may be an indication of a significant discovery. One indication supporting this hypothesis is the fact that the article describing the discovery of the telomerase enzyme is from 1985, but the term “telomerae” was included in the MeSH only in 1985, ten years later.
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