pubmed.mineR (version 1.0.1)

BWI: To Get the Buzz Word Index of terms form the Abstracts.

Description

This function is used to get the Buzz word index value for the terms. Buzz word became popular for a period of time.

Usage

BWI(current, previous, n, N)

Arguments

current

current an S4 object containing the Abtracts for the year we want to study. Output from currentabs_fn()

previous

previous an S4 object containing the Abstracts for years previous to our year of study. Output from previousabs_fn().

n

n is a character value for which Buzz Word Index is to be calculated.

N

N is a character value specifying the theme from the large corpus.

Value

• It returns a list containing BWI value for the given word.

References

Jensen, Lars Juhl, Jasmin Saric, and Peer Bork. "Literature mining for the biologist: from information retrieval to biological discovery." Nature reviews genetics 7.2 (2006): 119-129.

See Also

genes_BWI

Examples

BWI(current, previous, n, N)
## here current is an S4 object containing the output from currentabs_fn()
## previous is an S4 object containing the output from previousabs_fn().
## 'n' and 'N' are query word and theme respectively