Srinivasan, P.: Optimal document-indexing vocabulary for MEDLINE (1996)
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- Abstract
- The indexing vocabulary is an important determinant of success in text retrieval. Researchers have compared the effectiveness of indexing using free text and controlled vocabularies in a variety of text contexts. A number of studies have investigated the relative merits of free-text, MeSH and UMLS metathesaurus indexing vocabularies for MEDLINE document indexing. Controlled vocabularies offer no advantages in retrieval performance over free text. Offers a detailed analysis of prior results and their underlying experimental designs. Offers results from a new experiment assessing 8 different retrieval strategies. Results indicate that MeSH does have an important role in text retrieval