Comparing a rule-based versus statistical system for automatic categorization of MEDLINE documents according to biomedical specialty

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2530-2539

  Humphrey, Susanne M ^a,e   Névéol, Aurélie ^a   Browne, Allen ^a   Gobeil, Julien ^b   Ruch, Patrick ^c   Darmoni, Stefan J ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c University of Applied Sciences   (Switzerland)

^d ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CATEGORIZATION; BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; DESCRIPTORS; DOCUMENT CATEGORIZATION; GOLD STANDARDS; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; META-TERMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; RULE BASE; RULE BASED; RULES BASED; STATISTICAL SYSTEMS; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION SERVICES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 70349531916     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21170     Document Type: Article

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