Semi automatic indexing of PostScript files using Medical Text Indexer in medical education.

Semi-Automatic Indexing of Full Text Biomedical Articles

The main application of U.S. National Library of Medicine's Medical Text Indexer (MTI) is to provide indexing recommendations to the Library's indexing staff. The current input to MTI consists of the titles and abstracts of articles to be indexed. This study reports on an extension of MTI to the full text of articles appearing in online medical journals that are indexed for Medline. Using a col...

The NLM Medical Text Indexer: A Tool for Automatic and Assisted Indexing

Application of a Medical Text Indexer to an Online Dermatology Atlas

Clinical dermatology cases are presented as images and semi-structured text describing skin lesions and their relationships to disease. Metadata assignment to such cases is hampered by lack of a standardized dermatology vocabulary and facilitated methods for indexing legacy collections. In this pilot study descriptive clinical text from Dermatlas, a Web-based repository of dermatology cases, wa...

The NLM Indexing Initiative's Medical Text Indexer

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 ...

مدل دو مرحله ای شکاف- گلچین برای نمایه سازی خودکار متون فارسی

Purpose: Each language has its own problems. This leads to consider appropriate models for automatic indexing of every language. These models should concern the exhaustificity and specificity of indexing.   This paper aims at introduction and evaluation of a model which is suited for Persian automatic indexing. This model suggests to break the text into the particles of candidate terms and to c...