 | | Image courtesy of karnatakaforest.gov.in | Finding relationships in texts from diverse fields Researchers in search of higher productivity and more effective cross-disciplinary collaboration can add a new tool to their kit. Catherine Blake, an assistant professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina , has developed a method for retrieving, analyzing and finding relationships in published research texts from multiple disciplines. Claim Jumping through Scientific Literature, as it is called, enables researchers in a given field to collect relevant published information from other fields of study. Blake’s team analyzed 162,000 documents from a variety of scientific fields using a process called dependency parsing, which analyzes the grammatical structure of sentences to find meaningful relationships among words in different documents. “Generating these results on a high-end desktop computer would have required about 15,000 hours, or seven and a half years of 40-hour work weeks,” says Blake. The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), a joint venture between several North Carolina universities and the state government, provided Blake with technical expertise, onsite resources, and connections to Open Science Grid’s nationwide network of computing resources. The work was done through RENCI’s Faculty Fellows program, an effort funded by UNC Chapel Hill that partners faculty members on the Chapel Hill campus with experts and resources available through RENCI. | 
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