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Promoting Diversity in Top Hits for Biomedical Passage Retrieval.
| Title: | Promoting Diversity in Top Hits for Biomedical Passage Retrieval. |
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| Authors: | Andreopoulos, Bill, Huang, Xiangji, An, Aijun, Labudde, Dirk, Hu, Qinmin |
| Source: | Advances in Data Management; 2009, p371-393, 23p |
| Abstract: | With the volume of biomedical literature exploding, such as BMC or PubMed, it is of paramount importance to have scalable passage retrieval systems that allow researchers to quickly find desired information. While topical relevance is the most important factor in biomedical text retrieval, an effective retrieval system needs to also cover diverse aspects of the topic. Aspect-level performance means that top-ranked passages for a topic should cover diverse aspects. Aspect-level retrieval methods often involve clustering the retrieved passages on the basis of textual similarity. We propose the HIERDENC text retrieval system that ranks the retrieved passages, achieving scalability and improved aspect-level performance over other clustering methods. HIERDENC runtimes scale on large datasets, such as PubMed and BMC. The HIERDENC aspect-level performance is consistently better than cosine similarity and Hamming Distance-based clustering methods. HIERDENC is comparable to biclustering separation of relevant passages, and improves on topics where many aspects are involved. Converting textual passages to GO/MeSH ontological terms improves the HIERDENC aspect-level performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-02190-9_18 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |
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