Abstract
AMTEx is a medical document indexing method, specifically designed for the automatic indexing of documents in large medical collections, such as MEDLINE, the premier bibliographic database of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). AMTEx combines MeSH, the terminological thesaurus resource of NLM, with a well-established method for extraction of terminology, the C/NC-value method. The performance evaluation of two AMTEx configurations is measured against the current state-of-the-art, the MetaMap Transfer (MMTx) method in four experiments, using two types of corpora: a subset of MEDLINE (PMC) full document corpus and a subset of MEDLINE (OHSUMED) abstracts, for each of the indexing and retrieval tasks, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that AMTEx performs better in indexing in 20-50% of the processing time compared to MMTx, while for the retrieval task, AMTEx performs better in the full text (PMC) corpus.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 380-392 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Data & Knowledge Engineering |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was supported by project TOWL (FP6-STREP, Project No. 026896) of the European Union (EU). We would like to thank Dimitris Makreas, MD of Greek National Health Care System, for his valuable contribution in this work. Dr. Makreas proposed a methodology for the intellectual evaluation of the PMC answer sets. He has furthermore carried out the relevance judgments for our experiments, a work of crucial importance for any well-founded evaluation of retrieval techniques.
Keywords
- AMTEx
- Document indexing
- Medical document retrieval
- MMTx
- Term extraction
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