Creating an ignorance-base: Exploring known unknowns in the scientific literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Scientific discovery progresses by exploring new and uncharted territory. More specifically, it advances by a process of transforming unknown unknowns first into known unknowns, and then into knowns. Over the last few decades, researchers have developed many knowledge bases to capture and connect the knowns, which has enabled topic exploration and contextualization of experimental results. But recognizing the unknowns is also critical for finding the most pertinent questions and their answers. Prior work on known unknowns has sought to understand them, annotate them, and automate their identification. However, no knowledge-bases yet exist to capture these unknowns, and little work has focused on how scientists might use them to trace a given topic or experimental result

SUBMITTER: Boguslav MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10528083 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature