Advanced relevance feedback query expansion strategy for information retrieval in MEDLINE

Kwangcheol Shin, Sang Yong Han, Alexander Gelbukh, Jaehwa Park

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Abstract

MEDLINE is a very large database of abstracts of research papers in medical domain, maintained by the National Library of Medicine. Documents in MEDLINE are supplied with manually assigned keywords from a controlled vocabulary called MeSH terms, classified for each document into major MeSH terms describing the main topics of the document and minor MeSH terms giving more details on the document's topic. To search MEDLINE, we apply a query expansion strategy through automatic relevance feedback, with the following modification: we assign greater weights to the MeSH terms, with different modulation of the major and minor MeSH terms' weights. With this, we obtain 16% of improvement of the retrieval quality over the best known system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsAlberto Sanfeliu, Jose Francisco Martinez-Trinidad, Jesus Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages425-431
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)3540235272
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3287
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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