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Cloud-Based Phrase Mining and Analysis of User-Defined Phrase-Category Association in Biomedical Publications
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Published on: February 23, 2019

MeSH indexing based on automatically generated summaries.

Antonio J Jimeno-Yepes1, Laura Plaza, James G Mork

  • 1National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. antonio.jimeno@gmail.com

BMC Bioinformatics
|June 28, 2013
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Automatic summaries improve Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) indexing by enhancing precision over full-text articles. This approach aids manual indexers, potentially speeding up the process while maintaining indexing quality for MEDLINE citations.

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Cloud-Based Phrase Mining and Analysis of User-Defined Phrase-Category Association in Biomedical Publications
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Cloud-Based Phrase Mining and Analysis of User-Defined Phrase-Category Association in Biomedical Publications

Published on: February 23, 2019

Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Information Retrieval

Background:

  • Manual indexing of MEDLINE citations using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is time-consuming.
  • The Medical Text Indexer (MTI) tool assists indexers but currently uses limited input (citations, title, abstract).
  • Using full text as MTI input improves recall but reduces precision.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of automatically generated summaries as input for MTI.
  • To determine if summaries can enhance MeSH indexing accuracy and efficiency for manual indexers.

Main Methods:

  • Generated article summaries using two summarization techniques.
  • Evaluated MTI indexing performance on these summaries using various algorithms.
  • Compared results against full-text articles and MEDLINE citations.

Main Results:

  • Automatically generated summaries yielded higher precision than full-text articles.
  • Summaries achieved recall comparable to full-text articles.
  • Compared to MEDLINE citations, summaries showed higher recall but lower precision.

Conclusions:

  • Automatic summaries offer improved precision for MeSH indexing compared to full-text articles.
  • Summarization techniques effectively capture key article content, enhancing MTI recommendations.
  • Tailoring summarization to specific MeSH headings may further optimize indexing performance.