Beyond captions: linking figures with abstract sentences in biomedical articles.

Although figures in scientific articles have high information content and concisely communicate many key research findings, they are currently under utilized by literature search and retrieval systems. Many systems ignore figures, and those that do not typically only consider caption text. This stud...

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Main Authors: Joseph P Bockhorst, John M Conroy, Shashank Agarwal, Dianne P O'Leary, Hong Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3399876?pdf=render