About the Authors

Paul Thompson

paul.thompson@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliation National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro

Affiliation National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Georgios Kontonatsios

Affiliation National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jacob Carter

Affiliation National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Elizabeth Toon

Affiliation Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

John McNaught

Affiliation National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Carsten Timmermann

Affiliation Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Michael Worboys

Affiliation Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Sophia Ananiadou

Affiliation National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA MW JM CT. Performed the experiments: PT RB GK ET. Analyzed the data: PT RB GK ET. Wrote the paper: PT SA JM RB GK. Developed the semantic search interface: JC.