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Reading and literature exploration are important tasks of scientific research. However, conventional retrieval systems provide limited support for these tasks by concentrating on identifying relevant materials. New generation systems should provide additional support functionality by focusing on analyzing and organizing the retrieved materials. A framework of literature exploration support systems is proposed. Techniques of granular computing are used to construct granular knowledge structures from the contents, structures, and usages of scientific documents. The granular knowledge structures provide a high level understanding of scientific literature and hints regarding what has been done and what needs to be done. As a demonstration, we examine granular knowledge structures obtained from an analysis of papers from two rough sets related conferences.
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Yao, Y., Zeng, Y., Zhong, N. (2007). Supporting Literature Exploration with Granular Knowledge Structures. In: An, A., Stefanowski, J., Ramanna, S., Butz, C.J., Pedrycz, W., Wang, G. (eds) Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing. RSFDGrC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4482. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72530-5_21
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