BWI {pubmed.mineR}

To obtain the Buzz Word Index of terms from the Abstracts.

Description

This function is used to obtain the Buzz word index value for the terms.

Usage

BWI(current, previous, n, N)

Arguments

current

current an S4 object containing the Abtracts for the current year we require the BWI an output from currentabs_fn()

previous

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

n

n is a character term 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.

Author(s)

S.Ramachandran

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

## Not run: result = BWI(mycurrentabs, mypreviousabs, "insulin", "inflammation")
## BWI for the term "insulin" and the theme is inflammation. 
## Note that in the previous, years are starting one before the current year 2015; 
## 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 terms whose BWI is sought and the theme respectively