System and method for automatically generating systematic reviews of a scientific field

A system for automatically generating systematic reviews of received information in a field of literature, comprising a processor programmed to perform the following steps:

• constructing associative networks of entities within the received information;
• decomposing the associative networks into clusters of topics or fields;
• performing information extraction within the received information to provide tagged text;
• constructing semantic structures of concepts and/or assertions extracted from the tagged text;
• generating citation-based and content-based summaries of the clusters of topics or fields and the semantic and ontological structures;
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• generating structured narratives of the clusters of topics or fields and the summaries of the generated semantic structures.

A computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that when processed by a processor cause the processor to implement a method for automatically generating systematic reviews of information received from source text in a field of literature, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform the following steps:

• constructing associative networks of entities within the received information;
• decomposing the associative networks into clusters of fields or topics;
• performing part-of-speech tagging of text within the received information;
• constructing semantic and ontological structures of concepts and/or assertions extracted from the source text;
• generating citation-based and content-based summaries of the clusters of topics or fields and the semantic and ontological structures;
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• generating structured narratives of the clusters of field or topic-characterizing entities and the summaries of the generated semantic structures.