BioProber: software system for biomedical relation discovery from PubMed.

The numbers of articles and journals that are published are increasing at a considerable rate, and the published information is growing continuously and fast. Because of this, researches to acquire knowledge automatically have been carried out in the areas of information retrieval, information extraction and text mining. Information retrieval approaches are good for specific topics that the number of related articles is small. But, if the number is bigger, searching skill and knowledge acquisition ability are useless. Though many efforts have been made to extract information from literature, many approaches have concentrated on specific entities, such as proteins, genes and their interactions, and much information is still remained in unstructured text. So, we have developed a system that discovers relations between various categories of biomedical entities. Our system collects abstracts from PubMed by queries representing a topic and visualizes relationship from the collection by automatic information extraction.