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Automatic Indexing of Journal Abstracts with Latent Semantic Analysis

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Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction (CLEF 2015)

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The BioASQ “Task on Large-Scale Online Biomedical Semantic Indexing” charges participants with assigning semantic tags to biomedical journal abstracts. We present a system that takes as input a biomedical abstract and uses latent semantic analysis to identify similar documents in the MEDLINE database. The system then uses a novel ranking scheme to select a list of MeSH tags from candidates drawn from the most similar documents. Our approach achieved better than baseline performance in both precision and recall. We suggest several possible strategies to improve the system’s performance.

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  1. Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR, USA

    Joel Robert Adams & Steven Bedrick

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  1. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Toulouse , France

    Josanne Mothe

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Neuchatel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Jacques Savoy

  3. Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jaap Kamps

  4. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat

  5. School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Gareth Jones

  6. LIA - CERI, Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Avignon, France

    Eric San Juan

  7. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Linda Capellato

  8. of Information Engineering (DEI), University of Padua, Department, Padova, Italy

    Nicola Ferro

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Adams, J.R., Bedrick, S. (2015). Automatic Indexing of Journal Abstracts with Latent Semantic Analysis. In: Mothe, J., et al. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. CLEF 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9283. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24027-5_17

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