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A Metadata Extraction Approach for Clinical Case Reports to Enable Advanced Understanding of Biomedical Concepts
Published on: September 20, 2018
What's related? Generalizing approaches to related articles in medicine
H R Strasberg1, C D Manning, T C Rindfleisch
1Departments of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology, Divisions of Clinical Pharmacology and Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford, CA, USA.
Introduction:
We did formative evaluations of several variations to the computation of related articles for non-bibliographic resources in the medical domain.
Methods:
A binary model and several variations of the vector space model were used to measure similarity between documents. Two corpora were studied, using a human expert as the gold standard.
Results:
Variations in term weights and stopword choices made little difference to performance. Performance was worse when documents were characterized by title words alone or by MeSH terms extracted from document references.
Discussion:
Further studies are needed to evaluate these methods in medical information retrieval systems.
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