Table 7 Top 20 Alzheimer’s disease–related entities by each method (SemRep)

Alzheimer’s disease

[1] Patients [2] Disease [3] Brain [4] Dementia [5] Impaired cognition [6] Therapeutic procedure [7] Neurodegenerative disorders [8] Persons [9] Amyloid [10] Pharmaceutical preparations [11] APP gene [12] Amyloid beta-protein precursor [13] Functional disorder [14] Apolipoprotein E [15] Parkinson’s disease [16] Population group [17] Pathogenesis [18] Dementia, vascular [19] Nerve degeneration [20] Entire hippocampus

Entity A

Co-occurrence

Alzheimer’s disease

[1] Patients [2] Dementia [3] Disease [4] Persons [5] Individual [6] Impaired cognition [7] Therapeutic procedure [8] Population group [9] Neurodegenerative disorders [10] Elderly [11] Pathogenesis [12] Amyloid [13] Senile plaques [14] Functional disorder [15] Pharmaceutical preparations [16] Apolipoprotein E [17] Nerve degeneration [18] Brain [19] Participant [20] Woman

Entity A

Word2Vec

Alzheimer’s disease

[1] Tangier disease [2] Lyme disease [3] Binswanger disease [4] Parkinson’s disease [5] Disease [6] Huntington’s disease [7] Autosomal recessive juvenile Parkinson’s disease [8] Disease progression [9] Alzheimer’s disease, late onset [10] Alzheimer’s disease, early onset

[11] Familial Alzheimer’s disease [12] Progressive disease

[13] Alzheimer’s disease assessment scale [14] Genetic predisposition to disease [15] Chronic disease [16] Pick disease of the brain [17] Disease model

[18] Chronic obstructive airway disease [19] Psychic disease [20] Motor neurone disease

Entity A

COALS

Alzheimer’s disease

[1] Response [2] Patients [3] Impaired cognition [4] Therapeutic procedure [5] Neurodegenerative disorders [6] Persons [7] Pharmaceutical preparations [8] APP gene [9] Amyloid beta-protein precursor [10] Functional disorder [11] Parkinson’s disease [12] Population group [13] Pathogenesis [14] Nerve degeneration [15] Entire hippocampus [16] Memory impairment [17] Senile plaques [18] Proteins [19] Nervous system disorder [20] Genes

Entity A

Random indexing

Alzheimer’s disease

[1] Response [2] Inhibitors [3] Cohort [4] Tomography [5] Disease [6] Donepezil [7] Neuroimaging [8] Receptor [9] Dementia [10] Dementia, vascular [11] Presenilin [12] Network [13] Presenilin-1 [14] Follow-up [15] Sex [16] DNA [17] Rivastigmine [18] Investigation [19] Density [20] Hyperphosphorylation