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Text-mining for Medicinal Plants

Posted by timothy on from the clever-convergence dept.

Damien1972 writes "Researchers are exploring ancient texts for medicinal plant information using text-mining. From Shamans and Robots: Bridging the Past and Future of Ethnobotany and Bioprospecting: "A new procedure that is being explored by researchers to track and classify useful medicinal plant species may negate some of the issues surrounding the acquisition of knowledge ... This method involves a practice called "text-mining," in which old botanical works are scoured for references to medicinal plants.""

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  1. Re:Wikipedia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn I hate when I alt-tab to check an email, tab back and continue my post... I get multiple words where I left off. As the "into into" in my post. Wish slashdot had an edit command.

  2. Grep? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Textmining being a stupid word for search then? Imagine if they discover regexp... the power...