association-discovery

Identify cross-paper associations and research gaps from structured knowledge items.

6|1|Updated May 11, 2026
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npx skills add https://github.com/yakeworld/Synthos --skill association-discovery-yakeworld
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Skill: association-discovery
Source: https://github.com/yakeworld/Synthos/tree/main/skills/core/association-discovery
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/yakeworld/Synthos --skill association-discovery-yakeworld

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What problem does it solve? When reviewing multiple research papers, manually spotting contradictions, complementary findings, and unexplored gaps across studies is slow and error-prone. This Skill automates cross-paper association discovery over structured knowledge items, producing a knowledge graph and prioritized research gaps. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Seven-Type Relation Detection: Checks every knowledge-item pair for contradiction, complement, evolution, gap, causation, parallel, and dependency relations, each with a 0-1 confidence score and evidence reference. - Knowledge Graph Construction: Outputs a graph of papers as nodes and typed associations as edges, with summary statistics by relation type. - Research Gap Identification: Detects methodology, population, and domain gaps with explicit evidence and H/M/L priority, formatted as direct input for hypothesis generation. - Use Case: Given extracted knowledge from five papers on ADHD eye-tracking, produce associations.json and gaps.json revealing a contradiction between two screening studies and a high-priority methodology gap for downstream hypothesis generation. ## Quick Start Analyze these extracted knowledge items from my literature set and identify all contradictions, complementary findings, and research gaps with confidence scores.

Frequently Asked Questions about association-discovery

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I find contradictions between research papers automatically?

Provide structured knowledge items from each paper and run pairwise comparison across seven relation types. Each contradiction is scored 0-1 by evidence strength, with statistical conflicts rated 0.8-1.0 and trend-level conflicts rated 0.5-0.7.

How to identify research gaps from a literature review?

Classify gaps as methodology, population, mechanism, or domain gaps based on what existing papers cover versus what is missing. Each gap must cite concrete evidence of coverage and absence, and is assigned H/M/L priority for downstream hypothesis generation.

What input format does cross-paper association analysis require?

It requires a list of KnowledgeItem JSON objects produced by an upstream knowledge-extraction step, containing key findings, themes, methodology, domain, and limitations. Optional parameters include a query focus, minimum confidence filter, and cross-domain toggle.

Can association discovery handle papers from different research domains?

Yes, cross-domain checking is enabled by default and covers method transfer, phenomenon analogy, and data reuse across fields. Entities are first normalized through synonym, abbreviation, and hierarchy alignment before any comparison.

What are the limitations of automated association discovery?

It does not perform single-paper extraction, hypothesis generation, or verification of association validity, which belong to separate pipeline stages. Low-confidence associations are retained but marked as needing verification rather than silently discarded.