An automatic approach to weighted subject indexing-an empirical study in the biomedical domain

• Published in: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Vol. 66; no. 9; pp. 1776 - 1784
• Main Authors: Lu, Kun, Mao, Jin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2015
• Subjects: Automation; Indexing; Indexing systems; Information retrieval; Joints; Manuals; subject indexing; text mining; Texts; Uncertainty; weighting

Subject indexing is an intellectually intensive process that has many inherent uncertainties. Existing manual subject indexing systems generally produce binary outcomes for whether or not to assign an indexing term. This does not sufficiently reflect the extent to which the indexing terms are associ...