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Evaluation of Co-occurring Terms in Clinical Documents Using Latent Semantic Indexing
Choonghyun Han1, Sooyoung Yoo, Jinwook Choi
1Interdisciplinary Program of Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Objectives:
Measurement of similarities between documents is typically influenced by the sparseness of the term-document matrix employed. Latent semantic indexing (LSI) may improve the results of this type of analysis.
Methods:
In this study, LSI was utilized in an attempt to reduce the term vector space of clinical documents and newspaper editorials.
Results:
After applying LSI, document similarities were revealed more clearly in clinical documents than editorials. Clinical documents which can be characterized with co-occurring medical terms, various expressions for the same concepts, abbreviations, and typographical errors showed increased improvement with regards to a correlation between co-occurring terms and document similarities.
Conclusions:
Our results showed that LSI can be used effectively to measure similarities in clinical documents. In addition, correlation between the co-occurrence of terms and similarities realized in this study is an important positive feature associated with LSI.
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