Sen, B.A. (2011) The viability of automatic indexing for biomedical literature. In: International Journal of Health Information Management Research. 15th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, 08-10 Sep 2011, Zurich, Switzerland. ISHIMR
Abstract
Automatic indexing is evaluated as an aid/replacement to manual indexing for biomedical literature. Manual indexing is costly and labour intensive. Technological innovations have the potential to increase efficiency and reduce costs. British Library produces a bibliographic database of allied and complementary medicine (AMED). This study compares articles which have been indexed manually for AMED with the same documents submitted to an automated indexing tool. The indexing tool selected was Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering, (HIVE) which is a jointly funded project by the University of North Carolina and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, North Carolina. A random selection of 100 records from a total of 1059 articles was selected. Each manually indexed document was compared with results returned by HIVE. Data analysis was made using SPSS. Results showed that HIVE does not provide a suitable replacement for the skills of a human indexer. Continued development of automatic indexing tools is recommended.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Year The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | AMED; Automatic indexing tools; HIVE; Knowledge organisation systems; Medical indexing. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2014 14:46 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:26 |
Published Version: | https://ijhimr.shef.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/ijhimr/art... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | ISHIMR |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:78392 |