Questions Concerning the Basic Search Mode
Based on user experience and feedback, the Arrowsmith project staff will attempt to discern:
Interface: help, tutorials, layout
Stoplist -how to make it rational
Handling very small or large lits or A>>C
Semantic filter - protein/gene go list; need anything else that fails to map?
Frequency filter - how to define noise level for infrequent items - ok to remove all terms at this level? Handling frequent items - remove or filter further?
Recency filter - most recent items have special interest. But removing older items will lose undiscovered public knowledge!
Filter to identify B-terms that are more frequent in lits A and/or C than in Medline as a whole?
Filters using Medical Subject Headings, to restrict initial Medline searches, to filter B-terms, as alternative way of connecting lits instead of B-terms
Cluster similar B-terms together (rather than alphabetical), merge synonyms, merge terms used differently in different fields (APP vs. PNII) or merge terms from different languages.
Alternative output of Arrowsmith search: just the AB or just the BC titles as a set, clustered by underlying theme (or shared B-terms).
One node search: given literature C and category restriction, find a list of A-terms that are ranked in terms of how many B-terms they share with C.