Methods. A test collection of 200 MEDLINE citations published in 1997, with abstracts in English, were selected at random. The following methods of finding and ranking suitable MeSH descriptors have been investigated using this test collection: The Inquery Algorithm. This algorithm depends on parsing text into noun phrases, then using the Inquery search engine to match to MeSH descriptors. Cooc...

SUMMARY Progress in high-throughput genomic technologies has led to the development of a variety of resources that link genes to functional information contained in the biomedical literature. However, tools attempting to link small molecules to normal and diseased physiology and published data relevant to biologists and clinical investigators, are still lacking. With metabolomics rapidly emergi...

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Information overload is a well-known problem facing biomedical professionals. MEDLINE, the biomedical bibliographic database, adds hundreds of articles daily to the millions already in its collection. This overload is exacerbated by the lack of relevance-based ranking for search results, as well as disparate levels of search skill and domain experience of professionals using systems designed to...

Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) extraction is an important task in the biomedical information extraction. Presently, many machine learning methods for PPI extraction have achieved promising results. However, the performance is still not satisfactory. One reason is that the semantic resources were basically ignored. In this paper, we propose a multiple-kernel learning-based approach to extract...

OBJECTIVES To review the role of nonbronchiectatic suppurative airway disease (bronchiolitis) in the spectrum of causes of cough and its management. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY A MEDLINE search (through May 2004) for studies published in the English language since 1980 on human subjects using the medical subject heading terms "cough," "causes of cough," "etiology of cough," "interstitial lung disease,...

controlled vocabularies have been frequently used in information retrieval systems. control of the vocabularies and evaluating the utility of their terms are two critical questions. this research aims at the development of persian subject headings through statistical analyses. the current research was conducted on more than 450,000 records extracted from the electronic version of national bibli...

OBJECTIVES To review the role of chronic interstitial pulmonary disease in the spectrum of causes of cough and its management. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY A MEDLINE search (through May 2004) for studies published in the English language since 1980 on human subjects using the medical subject heading terms "cough," "causes of cough," "etiology of cough," "interstitial lung disease," "idiopathic pulmonar...

The centralized and public availability of molecular sequence and clinical trial data presents an opportunity to identify potentially valuable linkages across the bench-to-bedside "T1" translational barrier. In this study, we sought to leverage keyword metadata (Medical Subject Heading [MeSH] descriptors) to infer relationships between molecular sequences and clinical trials, as indexed by GenB...