12 years on - Is the NLM medical text indexer still useful and relevant?

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Mork, James ^a   Aronson, Alan ^a   Demner Fushman, Dina ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

BioASQ; Indexing methods; Machine learning; MEDLINE; MeSH; Text categorization

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; LIBRARY; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; UNITED STATES;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (U.S.); UNITED STATES;

EID: 85014326830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13326-017-0113-5     Document Type: Article

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