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Generating hypotheses from the web

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Hypothesis generation is a crucial initial step for making scientific discoveries. This paper addresses the problem of automatically discovering interesting hypotheses from the web. Given a query containing one or two entities of interest, our algorithm automatically generates a semantic profile describing the specified entity or provides the potential connections between two entities of interest. We implemented a prototype on top of the Google search engine and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithms.

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cover image ACM Conferences
WWW '08: Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
April 2008
1326 pages
ISBN:9781605580852
DOI:10.1145/1367497
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  1. hypothesis generation
  2. link analysis
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