Title: Revealing and Exploring the Literature’s Known Unknowns: Ignorance and How it Drives Science

Speaker: Mayla Boguslav

Abstract: 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. Little work has focused on how scientists might use them to trace a given topic or experimental result in search of open questions and new avenues for exploration. We present methods and tools to help researchers automatically uncover these unknowns through the illumination of specific goals for scientific knowledge.

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