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http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/Seminar_on_Data_Mining#Semantics_empowered_Understanding.2C_Analysis_and_Mining_of_Nontraditional_and_Unstructured_Data
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An expert knowledge base on human performance and cognition was created by extracting information from scientific literature using natural language processing and pattern-based techniques. Over 3 million facts were extracted from abstracts and mapped to a hierarchical structure derived from Wikipedia. The knowledge base was deployed through a browsing tool called Scooner that allows users to navigate relationships between concepts. Further work is focused on improving knowledge base quality by normalizing entities, filtering assertions, and integrating related ontologies and vocabularies.
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1) How to represent ontologies as graphs to allow for efficient querying over multiple interconnected ontologies and data sources.
2) The need for an associative query language and enhanced keyword model to query ontologies and integrated data through intention-based query reformulation.
3) Techniques for constructing ontologies by bootstrapping from seed ontologies or feature-derived ontologies.
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http://bivi.co/page/bivi-annual-meeting-16-17th-december-2014
Visualization Approaches for Biomedical Omics Data: Putting It All Together
The rapid proliferation of high quality, low cost genome-wide measurement technologies such as whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing, as well as advances in epigenomics and proteomics, are enabling researchers to perform studies that generate heterogeneous datasets for cohorts of thousands of individuals. A common feature of these studies is that a collection of genome-wide, molecular data types and phenotypic or clinical characterizations are available for each individual. These data can be used to identify the molecular basis of diseases and to characterize and describe the variations that are relevant for improved diagnosis, prognosis and targeted treatment of patients. An example for a study in which this approach has been successfully applied is The Cancer Genome Atlas project (http://cancergenome.nih.gov).
In my talk I will discuss how visualization approaches can be applied to enable exploration and support analysis of data generated by such studies. Specifically, I will review techniques and tools for visual exploration of individual omics data types, their ability to scale to large numbers of individuals or samples, and emerging techniques that integrate multiple omics data types for interactive visual analysis. I will also examine technical and legal challenges that developers of such visualization tools are facing. To conclude my talk, I will outline research opportunities for the biological data visualization community that address major challenges in this domain.
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Together, these problems motivate a research agenda around ¡°human-data interaction:¡± understanding and optimizing how people use and share quantitative information.
I¡¯ll describe some of our ongoing work in this area at the University of Washington eScience Institute.
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http://www.beyond-the-genome.com/2014/
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2. Semantics-Empowered Understanding, Analysis and Mining of Nontraditional and Unstructured DataWSU & AFRL Window-on-Science Seminar on Data MiningAmit P. Sheth,LexisNexis Ohio Eminent ScholarDirector, Kno.e.sis center, Wright State Universityknoesis.orgThanks: K. Gomadam, M. Nagarajan, C. Thomas, C. Henson, C. Ramakrishnan, P. Jain and Kno.e.sis Researchers
3. Data & Knowledge Ecosystem3Situational AwarenessDecision SupportInsightKnowledge DiscoveryAnalysis (eg Patterns)Understanding & PerceptionData MiningIntegrationSearchBrowsingMultimedia DataStructured,SemistructuredUnstructuredDataTextual Data: Scientific Literature, Web Pages, News, Blogs, Reports, Wiki, Forums, Comments, Tweets Experimental DataObservational DataTransactional Data
4. Some examples of R&D we have doneSemantic Search & Ranking of Stories and Reports ¨C connecting the dots applications (insider threat, financial risk analysis)Mining of biomedical (scientific) literature (extraction of entities and relationships) ¨C discovering hidden public knowledgeSemantic Integration, Analysis and Decision Support over Sensor DataExtracting taxonomy/domain model from WikipediaDiscovering Hidden Relationships (insights) in Community Created Content (Wikipedia)4
5. Understanding User Generated Content (on Social Networking Sites)*What are people talking aboutHow people writeWhy people writeWith application to Artist Popularity Ranking
8. SearchIntegrationAnalysisDiscoveryQuestion AnsweringSituational AwarenessDomain ModelsPatterns / Inference / ReasoningRDBRelationship WebMeta data / Semantic AnnotationsMetadata ExtractionMultimedia Content and Web dataTextSensor DataStructured and Semi-structured data
11. 9What Knowledge Discovery is NOT SearchKeyword-in-document-out Keywords are fully specified features of expected outcomeSearching for prospective mining sitesMining Know where to lookUnderspecified characteristics of what is sought are availablePatternsCarticRamakrishnan
12. 10What is knowledge discovery?¡°knowledge discovery is more like sifting through a warehouse filled with small gears, levers, etc., none of which is particularly valuable by itself. After appropriate assembly, however, a Rolex watch emerges from the disparate parts.¡± ¨C James Caruther ¡°discovery is often described as more opportunistic search in a less well-defined space, leading to a psychological element of surprise¡± ¨C James BuchananOpportunistic search over an ill-defined space leading to surprising but useful emergent knowledgeCarticRamakrishnan
13. Element of surprise ¨C Swanson¡¯s discoveriesStress?Swanson¡¯s DiscoveriesMagnesiumMigraineCalcium Channel BlockersSpreading Cortical Depression11 possible associations foundPubMedAssociations Discovered based on keyword searches followed by manually analysis of text to establish possible relevant relationships11
14. Knowledge Discovery over textTextAssigning interpretation to text Semantic metadata in the form ofsemi-structured dataExtraction of Semantics from textSemantic Metadata Guided Knowledge Explorations Semantic Metadata Guided Knowledge DiscoveryTriple-basedSemantic SearchSemanticbrowserSubgraphdiscovery12CarticRamakrishnan
15. Information Extraction via Ontology assisted text mining ¨C Relationship extraction4733 documents9284 documents5 documentsUMLS Semantic NetworkcomplicatesBiologically active substanceaffectscausescausesDisease or SyndromeLipidaffectsinstance_ofinstance_of???????Fish OilsRaynaud¡¯s DiseaseMeSHPubMed13CarticRamakrishnan
16. Background knowledge and Data usedUMLS ¨C A high level schema of the biomedical domain136 classes and 49 relationshipsSynonyms of all relationship ¨C using variant lookup (tools from NLM)49 relationship + their synonyms = ~350 verbsMeSH 22,000+ topics organized as a forest of 16 treesUsed to query PubMedPubMed Over 16 million abstractAbstracts annotated with one or more MeSH terms14
17. Method ¨C Parse Sentences in PubMedSS-Tagger (University of Tokyo)SS-Parser (University of Tokyo) Entities (MeSH terms) in sentences occur in modified forms
20. Entities can also occur as composites of 2 or more other entities
21. ¡°adenomatous hyperplasia¡± and ¡°endometrium¡± occur as ¡°adenomatous hyperplasia of the endometrium¡±(TOP (S (NP (NP (DT An) (JJ excessive) (ADJP (JJ endogenous) (CC or) (JJ exogenous) ) (NN stimulation) ) (PP (IN by) (NP (NN estrogen) ) ) ) (VP (VBZ induces) (NP (NP (JJ adenomatous) (NN hyperplasia) ) (PP (IN of) (NP (DT the) (NN endometrium) ) ) ) ) ) ) 15CarticRamakrishnan
22. Method ¨C Identify entities and relationships in Parse TreeModifiersTOPModified entitiesComposite EntitiesSVPUMLS ID T147NPVBZinducesNPPPNPNPNNestrogenINbyJJexcessivePPDTtheADJPNNstimulationMeSHIDD004967INofJJadenomatousNNhyperplasiaNPJJendogenousJJexogenousCCorMeSHIDD006965NNendometriumDTtheMeSHIDD00471716
31. magnesium can suppressplatelet aggregabilityData sets generated using these entities (marked red above) as boolean keyword queries against pubmedBidirectional breadth-first search used to find paths in resulting RDF
32. Paths between Migraine and MagnesiumPaths are considered interesting if they have one or more named relationshipOther thanhasPart or hasModifiers in them19CarticRamakrishnan
33. An example of such a pathCONCLUSIONRules over parse trees are able to extract structure from sentences
34. Our definition of compound and modified entities are critical for identifying both implicit and explicit relationships
36. Unsupervised Joint Extraction of Compound Entities and RelationshipCartic Ramakrishnan, Pablo N. Mendes, Shaojun Wang and Amit P. Sheth "Unsupervised Discovery of Compound Entities for Relationship Extraction"EKAW 2008 - 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Knowledge Patterns
56. A powerful new era in Information dissemination had taken firm ground
57. Making it possible for us tocreate a global network of citizensCitizen Sensors ¨C Citizens observing, processing, transmitting, reporting
58. Geocoder(Reverse Geo-coding)Address to location database18 Hormusji Street, ColabaVasantViharImage Metadatalatitude: 18¡ã 54¡ä 59.46¡å N, longitude: 72¡ã 49¡ä 39.65¡å EStructured Meta ExtractionNariman HouseIncome Tax OfficeIdentify and extract information from tweetsSpatio-Temporal Analysis
59. Research Challenge #1Spatio Temporal and Thematic analysisWhat else happened ¡°near¡± this event location?What events occurred ¡°before¡± and ¡°after¡± this event?Any message about ¡°causes¡± for this event?
62. Giving usTweets originated from an address near 18.916517¡ãN, 72.827682¡ãE during time interval27th Nov 2008 between 11PM to 12PM?
63. Research Challenge #2:Understanding and Analyzing Casual TextCasual textMicroblogs are often written in SMS style languageSlangs, abbreviations
64. Understanding Casual TextNot the same as news articles or scientific literatureGrammatical errorsImplications on NL parser resultsInconsistent writing styleImplications on learning algorithms that generalize from corpus
65. Nature of MicroblogsAdditional constraint of limited contextMax. of x chars in a microblogContext often provided by the discourseEntity identification and disambiguationPre-requisite to other sophisticated information analytics
66. NL understanding is hard to begin with..Not so hard¡°commando raid appears to be nigh at Oberoinow¡±Oberoi = Oberoi Hotel, Nigh = highChallengingnew wing, live fire @ taj 2nd floor on iDesi TV streamFire on the second floor of the Taj hotel, not on iDesi TV
67. Research OpportunitiesNER, disambiguation in casual, informal text is a budding area of researchAnother important area of focus: Combining information of varied quality from a corpus (statistical NLP), domain knowledge (tags, folksonomies, taxonomies, ontologies), social context (explicit and implicit communities)
68. Social Context surrounding contentSocial context in which a message appears is also an added valuable resourcePost 1: ¡°Hareemane Househostages said by eyewitnesses to be Jews. 7 Gunshots heard by reporters at Taj¡±Follow up postthat is Nariman House, not (Hareemane)
69. Understanding content ¡ informal textI say: ¡°Your music is wicked¡± What I really mean: ¡°Your music is good¡± 54
70. Urban DictionarySentiment expression: Rocks Transliterates to: cool, goodStructured text (biomedical literature)Semantic Metadata: Smile is a TrackLil transliterates to Lilly AllenLilly Allen is an ArtistMusicBrainz TaxonomyInformal Text (Social Network chatter)Artist: Lilly AllenTrack: Smile Your smile rocks LilMultimedia Content and Web dataWeb Services
71. Example: Pulse of a CommunityImagine millions of such informal opinionsIndividual expressions to mass opinions¡°Popular artists¡± lists from MySpace commentsLilly Allen Lady Sovereign Amy WinehouseGorillazColdplayPlaceboStingKeanJoss Stone
72. What Drives the Spatio-Temporal-Thematic Analysis and Casual Text UnderstandingSemantics with the help ofDomain ModelsDomain ModelsDomain Models(ontologies, folksonomies)
73. Domain Knowledge: A key driverPlaces that are nearby ¡®Nariman house¡¯Spatial queryMessages originated around this placeTemporal analysisMessages about related events / placesThematic analysis
74. Research Challenge #3But Where does the Domain Knowledge come from?Expert and committee based ontology creation ¡ works in some domains (e.g., biomedicine, health care,¡)Community driven knowledge extraction How to create models that are ¡°socially scalable¡±?How to organically grow and maintain this model?
77. Games with a purposeGet humans to give their solitaire time Solve real hard computational problemsImage tagging, Identifying part of an image Tag a tune, Squigl, Verbosity, and MatchinPioneered by Luis Von Ahn
83. Semantic Sensor ML ¨C Adding Ontological MetadataDomainOntologyPersonCompanySpatialOntologyCoordinatesCoordinate SystemTemporalOntologyTime UnitsTimezone67Mike Botts, "SensorML and Sensor Web Enablement," Earth System Science Center, UAB Huntsville
84. 68Semantic QuerySemantic Temporal QueryModel-references from SML to OWL-Time ontology concepts provides the ability to perform semantic temporal queriesSupported semantic query operators include:contains: user-specified interval falls wholly within a sensor reading interval (also called inside)within: sensor reading interval falls wholly within the user-specified interval (inverse of contains or inside)overlaps: user-specified interval overlaps the sensor reading intervalExample SPARQL query defining the temporal operator ¡®within¡¯
92. Extracting Social Signalswhat are the important topics of discussions and concerns in different parts of the world on a particular dayhow different cultures or countries are reacting to the same event or situation (eg Mumbai Attack)how a situation such as financial crisis is evolving over a period of time in terms of key topics of discussion and issues of concern (eg subprime mortgages and foreclosures, followed by troubled banks and credit freeze, followed by massive government intervention and borrowing, and so on).Twitris Demo76
93. A few more thingsUse of background knowledgeEvent extraction from texttime and location extraction Such information may not be presentSomeone from Washington DC can tweet about MumbaiScalable semantic analyticsSubgraph and pattern discoveryMeaningful subgraphs like relevant and interesting pathsRanking paths
94. The Sum of the PartsSpatio-Temporal analysisFind out where and when+ Thematic What and how+ Semantic Extraction from text, multimedia and sensor data - tags, time, location, concepts, events+ Semantic models & background knowledgeMaking better sense of STTIntegration + Semantic Sensor WebThe platform = Situational Awareness
95. KNO.E.SIS as a case study of world class research based higher education environmenthttp://knoesis.org79
96. Kno.e.sis Center Labs (3rd Floor, Joshi)Amit ShethSemantic Science LabSemantic Web LabService Research LabTK PrasadMetadata and Languages LabShaojun WangStatistical Machine LearningPascal HitzlerFormal Semantics & Reasoning labMichael RaymerBioinformatics LabGuozhu DongData Mining LabKeke ChenData Intensive Analysis and Computing LabKno.e.sis Members ¨C a subset
97. Exceptional studentsSix of the senior PhD students: 84 papers, 43 program committees, contributed to winning NIH and NSF grants.Successfully competed with two Stanford PhDs, 1000+ citations in 2 years of his graduation.¡°BTW, Meena is an absolute find.? If all of your other students are as talented, you are very lucky.? ¡? I¡¯d definitely like to work with more interns of her caliber, ... ¡±[Dr. Kevin Haas, Director of Search at Yahoo!]¡°It has been a few years since I visited Dayton (Wright AFB). However, it is clear that Wright State has?transformed?itself. Congratulations on your success with the KnoesisCenter.¡± [Dr. AlpersCaglayan ¨C looking to hire Kno.e.sis grads]
98. Funding, Collaboration, etcUGA, Stanford, CCHMC, SAIC, HP, IBM, Yahoo!NIH, NSF, AFRL-HE, AFRL-Sensor, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Google 70% Federal, 19% State, 11% IndustryStudents intern at the bestIndustry labs & national labsGraduates very successful83
99. Interested in more background?Semantics-Empowered Social ComputingSemantic Sensor Web Traveling the Semantic Web through Space, Theme and Time Relationship Web: Blazing Semantic Trails between Web Resources Text Mining, Workflow Management, Semantic Web Services, Cloud Computing with application to healthcare, biomedicine, defense/intelligence, energyContact/more details: amit @ knoesis.orgSpecial thanks: Karthik Gomadam, MeenaNagarajan, Christopher ThomasPartial Funding: NSF (Semantic Discovery: IIS: 071441, Spatio Temporal Thematic: IIS-0842129), AFRL and DAGSI (Semantic Sensor Web), Microsoft Research and IBM Research (Analysis of Social Media Content),and HP Research (Knowledge Extraction from Community-Generated Content).
Editor's Notes
#51: Microblogs are one of the most powerful ways of talking of CSD
#54: Implicit social context created by people responding to other messages. In this example we are showing how the system can identify that its is Nariman and not Hareemane
#59: In the scenario, what techniques and technlologies are being brought together? Semantic + Social Computing + Mobile Web
#64: Users are shown two images along with labels. Labels gotten from GI or similar data source. Users add relationships. When 2 users agree, the labels are tagged with this relationship. Multiple relationships, using ML techniques, the system will learn .