Introduction
摘要
Literature-based discovery (LBD) is a vibrant area of research, with a long research tradition. This chapter starts with a motivation for LBD research in Section 1.1, a brief introduction to LBD in Section 1.2, followed by an overview of the main underlying principles and related theories in Section 1.3. Finally, Section 1.5 offers a categorization of LBD tasks and approaches and provides an outline of this monograph.