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Reproducibility in Natural Language Processing: A Case Study of Two R Libraries for Mining PubMed/MEDLINE
K Bretonnel Cohen1, Jingbo Xia2, Christophe Roeder1,2
1Biomedical Text Mining Group Computational Bioscience Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Abstract:
There is currently a crisis in science related to highly publicized failures to reproduce large numbers of published studies. The current work proposes, by way of case studies, a methodology for moving the study of reproducibility in computational work to a full stage beyond that of earlier work. Specifically, it presents a case study in attempting to reproduce the reports of two R libraries for doing text mining of the PubMed/MEDLINE repository of scientific publications. The main findings are that a rational paradigm for reproduction of natural language processing papers can be established; the advertised functionality was difficult, but not impossible, to reproduce; and reproducibility studies can produce additional insights into the functioning of the published system. Additionally, the work on reproducibility lead to the production of novel user-centered documentation that has been accessed 260 times since its publication-an average of once a day per library.
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