A comparative analysis of semi-supervised learning: The case of article selection for medical systematic reviews

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 195-207

  Liu, Jun ^a   Timsina, Prem ^a   El Gayar, Omar ^a  

^a DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Medical systematic reviews; Self training; Semi supervised learning; Text analytics; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE LEARNING; SELF TRAINING; SEMI- SUPERVISED LEARNING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEXT ANALYTICS; TEXT MINING;

SUPERVISED LEARNING;

EID: 84996558280     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: 15729419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-016-9724-0     Document Type: Article

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