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Using multi-terminology indexing for the assignment of MeSH descriptors to health resources in a French online
Suzanne Pereira1, Aurélie Névéol, Gaétan Kerdelhué
1CISMeF, LITIS EA 4108, University of Rouen, France.
Background:
To assist with the development of a French online quality-controlled health gateway(CISMeF), an automatic indexing tool assigning MeSH descriptors to medical text in French was created. The French Multi-Terminology Indexer (FMTI) relies on a multi-terminology approach involving four prominent medical terminologies and the mappings between them.
Objective:
In this paper,we compare lemmatization and stemming as methods to process French medical text for indexing. We also evaluate the multi-terminology approach implemented in F-MTI.
Methods:
The indexing strategies were assessed on a corpus of 18,814 resources indexed manually.
Results:
There is little difference in the indexing performance when lemmatization or stemming is used. However, the multi-terminology approach outperforms indexing relying on a single terminology in terms of recall.
Conclusion:
F-MTI will soon be used in the CISMeF production environment and in a Health MultiTerminology Server in French.
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