Bajic, VladimirRadovanovic, Aleksandar.Faculty of Science2013-11-262024-05-172010/04/252010/04/252013-11-262024-05-172009https://hdl.handle.net/10566/15258Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis thesis describes and introduces novel methods for knowledge discovery and presents a software system that is able to extract information from biomedical literature, review interesting connections between various biomedical concepts and in so doing, generates new hypotheses. The experimental results obtained by using methods described in this thesis, are compared to currently published results obtained by other methods and a number of case studies are described. This thesis shows how the technology, resented can be integrated with the researchers own knowledge, experimentation and observations for optimal progression of scientific research.enBioinformaticsText miningPubMedEntity recognitionInformation extractionRelation ExtractionLevenshtein distanceSupervised classificationNatural Language ProcessingMachine learningThesisUniversity of the Western Cape