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    Exploiting domain information for Word Sense Disambiguation of medical documents

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    Stevenson, M; Agirre, E; Soroa, A
    Date
    2012-03-01
    Source Title
    Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
    Publisher
    OXFORD UNIV PRESS
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    STEVENSON, MARK; Stevenson, Mark
    Affiliation
    Veterinary Biosciences
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    Stevenson, M., Agirre, E. & Soroa, A. (2012). Exploiting domain information for Word Sense Disambiguation of medical documents. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION, 19 (2), pp.235-240. https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000415.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/257486
    DOI
    10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000415
    Abstract
    OBJECTIVE: Current techniques for knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) of ambiguous biomedical terms rely on relations in the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus but do not take into account the domain of the target documents. The authors' goal is to improve these methods by using information about the topic of the document in which the ambiguous term appears. DESIGN: The authors proposed and implemented several methods to extract lists of key terms associated with Medical Subject Heading terms. These key terms are used to represent the document topic in a knowledge-based WSD system. They are applied both alone and in combination with local context. MEASUREMENTS: A standard measure of accuracy was calculated over the set of target words in the widely used National Library of Medicine WSD dataset. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: The authors report a significant improvement when combining those key terms with local context, showing that domain information improves the results of a WSD system based on the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus alone. The best results were obtained using key terms obtained by relevance feedback and weighted by inverse document frequency.

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