MEDRank: Using graph-based concept ranking to index biomedical texts

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 431-441

  Herskovic, Jorge R ^a   Cohen, Trevor ^a   Subramanian, Devika ^b   Iyengar, M Sriram ^a,c   Smith, Jack W ^a   Bernstam, Elmer V ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstracting and indexing as topic; Algorithms; Automatic data processing; Digital libraries; Medical informatics; MEDLINE; Natural language processing.; PubMed

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDLINE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PUBMED;

ABSTRACTING; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC INDEXING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA HANDLING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

INDEXING (MATERIALS WORKING);

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIBRARY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL TEXT INDEXER; MEDLINE; MEDLINE INDEXER; MEDRANK; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TAXONOMIC RANK;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (U.S.); SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955472008     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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