{"id":73241,"date":"2016-08-15T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6ed1203402315188415da18e789efefa"},"modified":"2016-08-15T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:00:17","slug":"news-story-hypothesis-generation-and-visualisation-from-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73241","title":{"rendered":"News story: Hypothesis generation and visualisation from big data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The volume of electronic data now available presents a problem for anyone trying to track an area of interest.<\/p>\n

The University of Sheffield<\/a> has been funded by the Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE<\/abbr>) to see how literature-based discovery (LBD<\/abbr>), which is a text-mining technology, could automatically analyse large volumes of information and identify connections that can only be made by combining information from multiple sources.<\/p>\n

It has developed HiDE<\/abbr> (Hidden Discovery Explorer), and LBD<\/abbr> system which makes use of complex mathematical techniques to allow more information to be analysed than possible previous approaches. HiDE<\/abbr>\u2019s output is displayed visually and can be viewed in a web browser.<\/p>\n

HiDE<\/abbr> was originally developed as part of a project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in which large repositories of life-science publications (containing more than 26 millions documents) were processed and the output analysed by doctors to identify information that was relevant to neuroscience and oncology.<\/p>\n

The aim of this CDE<\/abbr> project was to apply HiDE<\/abbr> to scenarios that are relevant to defence and security. The project tested HiDE<\/abbr> on a range of relevant document collections including collections of articles on defence related topics (weapons, terrorism, defence and military personnel) and a collection of documents about military hardware.<\/p>\n

The University has developed a range of strategies to conduct intelligent text analysis, application of inference rules to filter out hidden knowledge and identifying unhelpful \u2018linking terms\u2019. It plans to develop a version of HiDE<\/abbr> which allows users to choose individual filtering strategies, thereby providing a personalised view of the information generated.<\/p>\n

The University\u2019s Dr Mark Stevenson says:<\/p>\n

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The funding we received from CDE<\/abbr> allowed us to develop our approach beyond its original application and demonstrate that it could be applied to documents on any topic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

About CDE<\/abbr>
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CDE<\/abbr> funds novel, high-risk, high-potential-benefit research. We work with the broadest possible range of science and technology providers, including academia and small companies, to develop cost-effective capabilities for UK armed forces and national security.<\/p>\n

CDE<\/abbr> is part of Dstl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Centre for Defence Enterprise<\/h3>\n
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\nBuilding R103
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\nFermi Avenue
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\nHarwell Oxford<\/span>
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\nOX11 0QX<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n Email<\/span>
\n cde@dstl.gov.uk<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

\n Telephone <\/span>
\n +44 (0)30 67704236\n <\/p>\n

\n Alternative number<\/span>
\n +44 (0)30 67704237\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Please email for the quickest response.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Case study from the University of Sheffield who will pitch their ideas to industry and investors at the CDE Marketplace on 6 September 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}