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

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dc.contributor.authorLu, Kun
dc.contributor.authorMao, Jin
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-07T17:44:56Z
dc.date.available2017-05-07T17:44:56Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractSubject 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 associated with the documents. On the other hand, the idea of probabilistic or weighted indexing was proposed a long time ago and has seen success in capturing uncertainties in the automatic indexing process. One hurdle to overcome in implementing weighted indexing in manual subject indexing systems is the practical burden that could be added to the already intensive indexing process. This study proposes a method to infer automatically the associations between subject terms and documents through text mining. By uncovering the connections between MeSH descriptors and document text, we are able to derive the weights of MeSH descriptors manually assigned to documents. Our initial results suggest that the inference method is feasible and promising. The study has practical implications for improving subject indexing practice and providing better support for information retrieval.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationLu, K., & Mao, J. (2015). An automatic approach to weighted subject indexing – An empirical study in the biomedical domain. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(9), 1776-1784.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/asi.23290en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/50710
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries66;9
dc.subjectInformation Science.en_US
dc.titleAn automatic approach to weighted subject indexing – An empirical study in the biomedical domainen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::School of Library and Information Studiesen_US

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