A process for mining science & technology documents databases, illustrated for the case of "knowledge discovery and data mining"

Donghua Zhu, Alan Porter, Scott Cunningham, Judith Carlisie, Anustup Nayak
1999 Ciência da Informação  
This paper presents a process of mining research & development abstract databases to profile current status and to project potential developments for target technologies, The process is called "technology opportunities analysis." This article steps through the process using a sample data set of abstracts from the INSPEC database on the topic o "knowledge discovery and data mining." The paper offers a set of specific indicators suitable for mining such databases to understand innovation
more » ... . In illustrating the uses of such indicators, it offers some insights into the status of knowledge discovery research*.
doi:10.1590/s0100-19651999000100002 fatcat:yltrenvudzgkrhrvba5ffptuma