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We demonstrate the application of a grid infrastructure for conducting text mining over distributed data and computational resources. The approach is based on using LexiQuest Mine, a text mining workbench, in a grid computing environment. We describe our architecture and approach and provide an illustrative example of mining full-text journal articles to create a knowledge base of gene relations. The number of patterns found increased from 0.74 per full-text articles from a corpus of 1000 articles to 0.83 when the corpus contained 5000 articles. However, it was also shown that mining a corpus of 5000 full-text articles took 26 hours on a single computer, whilst the process was completed in less than 2.5 hours on a grid comprising of 20 computers. Thus whilst increasing the size of the corpus improved the efficiency of the text-mining process, a grid infrastructure was required to complete the task in a timely manner.
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Natarajan, J., Mulay, N., DeSesa, C., Hack, C.J., Dubitzky, W., Bremer, E.G. (2005). A Grid Infrastructure for Text Mining of Full Text Articles and Creation of a Knowledge Base of Gene Relations. In: Oliveira, J.L., Maojo, V., Martín-Sánchez, F., Pereira, A.S. (eds) Biological and Medical Data Analysis. ISBMDA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3745. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11573067_11
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