title: The NLM Indexing Initiative.
abstract: The objective of NLM's Indexing Initiative (IND) is to investigate methods whereby automated indexing methods partially or completely substitute for current indexing practices. The project will be considered a success if methods can be designed and implemented that result in retrieval performance that is equal to or better than the retrieval performance of systems based principally on humanly assigned index terms. We describe the current state of the project and discuss our plans for the future.
authors.affiliation: Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC), National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Aronson
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bodenreider
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Humphrey
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Mork
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Rindflesch
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Wilbur
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D016239:MEDLINE; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D009323:Natural Language Processing; D013358:Subject Headings; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014481:United States