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Mining Hidden Linkages Background Migraine-Magnesium Deficiency connection hypothesized (Swanson, 1988) Gallai et.al. corroborate this connection (1992) Task - Can we mine the hidden linkage? Dataset: All pre-1988 literature containing 1) Migraine (but NOT Magnesium), plus 2) Magnesium (but NOT Migraine)
The Human Way.. Dataset contains 15,000+ literature (3000+ for Migraine and for Magnesium) Browsing through them will take….. you can imagine!
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