The NLM Indexing Initiative's Medical Text Indexer
Aronson, A.R.; Mork, J.G.; Gay, C.W.; Humphrey, S.M.; Rogers, W.J.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 107(Part 1): 268-272
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 15360816 Document Number: 570031
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 tool for user-assisted indexing. We also discuss some filtering techniques developed to improve MTI's accuracy for use primarily in automatically producing the indexing for several abstracts collections.