A framework for information extraction from tables in biomedical literature
link.springer.com
link.springer.com
More broadly than that, better approaches to extracting tabular information could probably be useful in many domains. Definitely looking forward to digging into this more deeply when I get home tonight.
[0]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Valmont-F
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature-based_discovery