title: The NLM Indexing Initiative's Medical Text Indexer.
abstract: The Medical Text Indexer (MTI) is a program for producing MeSH indexing recommendations. It is the major product of NLM's Indexing Initiative and has been used in both semi-automated and fully automated indexing environments at the Library since mid 2002. We report here on an experiment conducted with MEDLINE indexers to evaluate MTI's performance and to generate ideas for its improvement as a tool for user-assisted indexing. We also discuss some filtering techniques developed to improve MTI's accuracy for use primarily in automatically producing the indexing for several abstracts collections.
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, Building 38A, MS 54 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. alan@lhc.nlm.nih.gov
authors.forename: Alan R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Aronson
authors.forename: James G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Mork
authors.forename: Clifford W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Gay
authors.forename: Susanne M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Humphrey
authors.forename: Willie J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000379:methods*; D016239:MEDLINE; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D009323:Natural Language Processing; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014481:United States