Knowledge discovery through text-based similarity searches for astronomy literature

Understand

The increase in the number of researchers coupled with the ease of publishing and distribution of scientific papers (due to technological advancements) has resulted in a dramatic increase in astronomy literature.

• This has likely led to the predicament that the body of the literature is too large for traditional human consumption and that related and crucial knowledge is not discovered by researchers.
• In addition to the increased production of astronomical literature, recent decades have also brought several advancements in computational linguistics.
• Especially, the machine-aided processing of literature dissemination might make it possible to convert this stream of papers into a coherent knowledge set.