title: Semantic processing to enhance retrieval of diagnosis citations from Medline.
abstract: We investigate the use of natural language processing (NLP) for enhancing precision when retrieving Medline citations on diagnostic procedure. Inter-annotator agreement is described as part of the evaluation method, and preliminary results are presented.
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sneiderman
authors.forename: Dina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Demner-Fushman
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fiszman
authors.forename: Graciela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rosemblat
authors.forename: François-Michel
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: Daphne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Norwood
authors.forename: Thomas C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Rindflesch
mesh_terms: D003933:Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D039781:PubMed; D012660:Semantics; D017432:Unified Medical Language System