MeSH Now: automatic MeSH indexing at PubMed scale via learning to rank

• Published in: Journal of biomedical semantics Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 15 - 9
• Main Authors: Mao, Yuqing, Lu, Zhiyong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central 17.04.2017; BMC
• Subjects: Abstracting and Indexing - methods; Artificial intelligence; Automation; Benchmarking; Bibliographic data bases; Bioinformatics; Citation analysis; Classification; Computers; Documents; Gene expression; Indexing; Inductive Logic Programming; Information retrieval; International conferences; Language; Learning; Logic programming; Machine Learning; Medical Subject Headings; Medical Subject Headings-MeSH; MeSH Term; Neural networks; Parameter estimation; Post-processing; PubMed; Query expansion; R&D; Research & development; Semantics; Subject heading schemes; Target Article; Text Classification; Unify Medical Language System; Word sense disambiguation

MeSH indexing is the task of assigning relevant MeSH terms based on a manual reading of scholarly publications by human indexers. The task is highly important for improving literature retrieval and many other scientific investigations in biomedical research. Unfortunately, given its manual nature, t...