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The Business of Extracting Knowledge from Academic Publications
- AlbertCory 5y agoGreat article. I think this idea does have relevance for searching prior art to bust patents, as the author allows. But this would not be a huge business. It's funny that he says "A naive system will weigh the insights extracted from a useless publication equally to a seminal work." This is exactly why prior art searching is a good application -- there is absolutely no difference in value of a "great" paper (in a scientific sense) over a "useless" one! They are both prior art.