Bisociation Networks for Creative Information Discovery

The second meeting of the BISON group took place in Northern Ireland at the University of Ulster Coleraine Campus between the 28th of September and 3rd of October. 29 participants from all involved research groups came together to discuss their further-developed ideas of bisociation.

Ulster Meeting

Guest speaker, Kristina Gruden, presented use cases for bisociative discovery in plant biology and cancer research. Bojan Cestnik presented his work on literature mining to identify relations between biomedical concepts in disconnected sets of articles.

Ideas for theoretical foundations, activity spreading and an interchange format for bisociation networks were presented and discussed in the first three days.

The group enjoyed a trip to the Giant's Causeway on Wednesday afternoon followed by a visit to the Bushmill's Distillery, two of the highlights of the local area.
Giant's Causeway

The JuniorBison group focused on software tools and their integration during the last two days of the meeting. Initial tool integrations have been set up, which will allow the partners to collaborate more closely.