Biomedical Engineering Reference
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application to allow scholars logged in through university systems to semanti-
cally browse text that is only available behind their fi rewalls.
Scientists will be encouraged to identify familiar concepts in text that are
not automatically recognized by the knowledge enhancer. When an unrecog-
nized concept is discovered, the scientist should go through the process of
determining whether it is a synonym of a concept already present in
ConceptWiki or whether it is entirely new. If it is a new term representing an
existing concept, then the term is added as a synonym. If it is a new concept,
then the concept plus its defi nition and semantic type should be added to
ConceptWiki. For addition of new concepts, the knowledge enhancer will act
as an editor application that can be used to highlight any new word group
representing a concept or new term (n-gram) found. Highlighting a new
n-gram will automatically copy the n-gram to an editor window and allow the
addition of defi nition and semantic-type data. This facilitates the very easy
incorporation of newly coined concepts from recently published scientifi c
articles. New rules will be added to the knowledge enhancer to help determine
whether the term identifi ed for addition to ConceptWiki is ambiguous. It is
important to acknowledge the editors/annotators of concept-denoting terms
as well as those users who add precision to ambiguous terms; therefore, names
of registered community editors will be connected to each edit. The contribu-
tor names will be displayed to add creditability to the edit and provide
acknowledgment for the contribution. Contribution metrics will establish the
productivity of every participant, so that appropriate credit for all annotations
can be shown, as this has been found to be a motivating technique for increas-
ing annotations.
The intentions of mobile users are typically more immediate and goal
directed than the interests of users of fi xed or desktop devices. Mobile users
often aim at fi nding out specifi c, context - relevant information [25] , resembling
microblogs, when accessing the Internet. Lengthy documents or browsing are
typically of less interest due to mobile devices' ergonomics. Therefore, an
application available to registered users that actively pushes scientifi c asser-
tions featuring concepts that appear to be of interest to them is a way to
stimulate participation. The mobile assertion verifi er or mobile nanopublica-
tion reviewer is an application that alerts users to new triples and gives them
the opportunity to attach an annotation. Users will be able to judge the validity
of new triples using a very accessible dedicated user interface. The primary
annotation will be a simple “endorse or deny” choice. The immediate notifi ca-
tion of potential new scientifi c assertions has a twofold effect of positive
reinforcement for the scientist; they are the fi rst to know the new assertions
entering the scientifi c record concerning their concepts of interest and they
are able to amass nanopublications (all annotations are credited) during
periods when other scientifi c processes are not feasible (e.g., during delays in
public transport). It also results in a positive effect for the store of scientifi c
assertions as it builds the scientifi c validity of the assertions through the
endorsements or denials by registered experts.
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