Monday, September 4, 2017

ctj rdf: Relations Between Conifers Mentioned in Articles

Below is part two of a small series on ctj rdf, a new program I made to transform ContentMine CProjects into SPARQL-queryable Wikidata-linked rdf.


Here’s a more detailed example. We are using my dataset available at 10.5281/zenodo.845935. It was generated from 1000 articles that mention ‘Pinus’ somewhere. This one has 15326 statements, whereof 8875 (57.9%) can be mapped, taking ~50 seconds. Now, for example, we can list the top 100 most mentioned species. The top 20:

Species Hits
Pinus sylvestris 248
Picea abies 177
Pinus taeda 138
Pinus pinaster 120
Pinus contorta 96
Arabidopsis thaliana 91
Picea glauca 77
Pinus radiata 77
Pinus massoniana 72
Pseudotsuga menziesii 65
Oryza sativa 56
Pinus halepensis 56
Pinus ponderosa 55
Pinus banksiana 53
Pinus koraiensis 53
Picea mariana 52
Pinus nigra 51
Pinus strobus 46
Quercus robur 45
Fagus sylvatica 45

The top of the list isn’t surprising: mostly pines, other conifers, other trees, Arabidopsis thaliana which I’ve seen represented in pine literature before, and Oryza sativa or rice, which I haven’t seen before in this context.

Note that only 248 of the 1000 articles mention the top Pinus species. This may be because the query getting the articles was quite broad. Also note that this doesn’t take into account how often an article mentions a species; a caveat of the current rdf output.

Going of this list, we can then look what non-tree or even non-plant species are named most often in conjunction with a given species, or, in this case, a genus. Top 20:

Species 1 Species 2 Co-occurences
Picea abies Pinus sylvestris 98
Picea abies Pinus taeda 56
Arabidopsis thaliana Pinus taeda 47
Picea glauca Pinus taeda 43
Arabidopsis thaliana Oryza sativa 43
Pinus pinaster Pinus taeda 41
Pinus pinaster Pinus sylvestris 41
Picea abies Picea glauca 41
Arabidopsis thaliana Picea abies 37
Pinus contorta Pinus sylvestris 36
Betula pendula Pinus sylvestris 36
Pinus sylvestris Pinus taeda 36
Pinus nigra Pinus sylvestris 35
Pinus contorta Pseudotsuga menziesii 32
Picea abies Pinus contorta 31
Picea abies Pinus pinaster 30
Arabidopsis thaliana Physcomitrella patens 30
Oryza sativa Pinus taeda 29
Pinus sylvestris Quercus robur 29
Picea abies Picea sitchensis 28

Interesting to see that rice is mostly mentioned with Arabidopsis. Let’s explore that further. Below are species named in conjunction with Oryza sativa.

Species Co-occurrences
Arabidopsis thaliana 43
Pinus taeda 29
Picea abies 24
Physcomitrella patens 23
Populus trichocarpa 21
Glycine max 20
Vitis vinifera 17
Picea glauca 17
Pinus pinaster 16
Selaginella moellendorffii 15
Pinus sylvestris 13
Triticum aestivum 12
Pinus contorta 10
Picea sitchensis 10
Ginkgo biloba 10
Pinus radiata 10
Ricinus communis 9
Amborella trichopoda 9
Medicago truncatula 9
Cucumis sativus 8

So attention seems divided between trees and more agriculture-related plants. More to explore for later.


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