Classification of MedLine Documents Using MeSH Terms

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Glez-Peña;Sira López;Reyes Pavón;Rosalía Laza;Eva L. Iglesias;Lourdes Borrajo

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science, University of Vigo, Spain;Computer Science, University of Vigo, Spain;Computer Science, University of Vigo, Spain;Computer Science, University of Vigo, Spain;Computer Science, University of Vigo, Spain;Computer Science, University of Vigo, Spain

  • Venue:
  • IWANN '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks: Part II: Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Text classification is becoming an interesting research field due to increased availability of documents in digital form which is necessary to organize. The machine learning paradigm is usually applied to text classification, according to which a general inductive process automatically builds an text classifier from a set of pre-classified documents. In this paper we investigate the application of Bayesian networks to classify MedLine documents, where each document is identified by a set of MeSH ontology terms. Bayesian networks have been selected for their ability to describe conditional independencies between variables and provide clear methodologies for learning from observations.Our experimental evaluation of these ideas is based on the relevance judgments of the 2004 TREC workshop Genomics track.