Method and apparatus for automatically discovering medical knowledge

An apparatus for automatically discovering medical knowledge comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and at least one memory storing a computer program;
• wherein when the computer program is executed by the at least one processor, the apparatus is caused to:
• obtain one or more linking concepts having a semantic relation with a starting concept from a medical literature library, wherein the starting concept represents a disease;
• obtain one or more target concepts having a semantic relation with the one or more linking concepts from the medical literature library;
• calculate an association degree of each of the one or more target concepts with respect to the starting concept, wherein the association degree indicates a probability that the target concept is able to cope with the starting concept;
• and sort the one or more target concepts according to the calculated association degrees,
• wherein the apparatus further comprise a display device configured to display the sorting of the target concepts, and
• wherein when the computer program is executed by the at least one processor, the apparatus is caused to calculate the association degree of each of the one or more target concepts with respect to the starting concept by the following operations:
• for each of the one or more target concepts,
• determining a linking concept related to the target concept in the one or more linking concepts as a related linking concept;
• and
• calculating the association degree of the target concept with respect to the starting concept based on a first semantic relation between the related linking concept and the starting concept and a second semantic relation between the related linking concept and the target concept by using a pretrained Markov logic network, wherein the Markov logic network is composed of predefined predicates and logic formulas describing a logic relation among the predicates.