# Literature-based discovery Literature-based discovery is a field that uses papers and other academic publications to find new relationships between existing knowledge * Basically kicked off by [[Don R Swanson]] * Trying to find [[Swanson Links]] In a way literature-based discovery is the intersection of of [[Information retrieval is the study of generically getting information out of a collection of resources.]], [[Text mining]] , and [[Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Group]] because we’re trying to retrieve the links between papers, all the papers are in a database and all we have to go off of is their text. ### Reference [Literature-based discovery - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature-based_discovery) [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Literature-based+discovery) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Literature-based+discovery)