Title
Using Topic Models to Interpret MEDLINE's Medical Subject Headings
Abstract
We consider the task of interpreting and understanding a taxonomy of classification terms applied to documents in a collection. In particular, we show how unsupervised topic models are useful for interpreting and understanding MeSH, the Medical Subject Headings applied to articles in MEDLINE. We introduce the resampled author model, which captures some of the advantages of both the topic model and the author-topic model. We demonstrate how topic models complement and add to the information conveyed in a traditional listing and description of a subject heading hierarchy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-10439-8_28
Australasian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
medical subject,unsupervised topic model,interpret medline,classification term,topic models,traditional listing,topic model,author-topic model,medical subject headings,resampled author model,natural language processing,subject headings
Latent Dirichlet allocation,Query expansion,Information retrieval,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Topic model,Hierarchy,MEDLINE
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5866
0302-9743
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.58
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Newman1131973.72
Sarvnaz Karimi238033.01
Lawrence Cavedon3100.58