Automatic inference of indexing rules for MEDLINE
Background: Indexing is a crucial step in any information retrieval system. In MEDLINE , a widely used database of the biomedical literature, the indexing process involves the selection of Medical Subject Headings in order to describe the subject matter of articles. The need for automatic tools to a...
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| Vydáno v: | BMC bioinformatics Ročník 9; číslo Suppl 11; s. S11 |
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| Hlavní autoři: | , , |
| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Vydáno: |
London
BioMed Central
19.11.2008
BMC |
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| ISSN: | 1471-2105, 1471-2105 |
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Indexing is a crucial step in any information retrieval system. In
MEDLINE
, a widely used database of the biomedical literature, the indexing process involves the selection of Medical Subject Headings in order to describe the subject matter of articles. The need for automatic tools to assist
MEDLINE
indexers in this task is growing with the increasing number of publications being added to
MEDLINE
.
Methods:
In this paper, we describe the use and the customization of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to infer indexing rules that may be used to produce automatic indexing recommendations for
MEDLINE
indexers.
Results:
Our results show that this original ILP-based approach outperforms manual rules when they exist. In addition, the use of ILP rules also improves the overall performance of the Medical Text Indexer (
MTI
), a system producing automatic indexing recommendations for
MEDLINE
.
Conclusion:
We expect the sets of ILP rules obtained in this experiment to be integrated into
MTI
. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 SC0014664 USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science Division |
| ISSN: | 1471-2105 1471-2105 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2105-9-S11-S11 |