The Business of Extracting Knowledge from Academic Publications
After working on biomedical literature search, discovery and recommender web applications for many months I concluded that extracting, structuring or synthesizing "insights" from academic publications (papers) has negligible value in industry.
The Business of Extracting Knowledge from Academic Publications December 7, 2021 · Last edited April 18, 2022 · 25 min read · Send your thoughts via twitter or mail . I meant to post this much earlier but have been fighting with neurological longhaul covid symptoms for most of the year. TL;DR I worked on biomedical literature search, discovery and recommender web applications for many months and concluded that extracting, structuring or synthesizing “insights” from academic publications (papers) or building knowledge bases from a domain corpus of literature has negligible value in industry. Cl
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