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The following list of presentations and papers provide a good overiew of the Indexing Initiative. Latest publications are listed first in each of the sections.

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PDF: Fine-Grained Indexing of the Biomedical Literature: MeSH Subheading Attachment for a MEDLINE Indexing Tool, AMIA 2007 (39kb) Fine-Grained Indexing of the Biomedical Literature: MeSH Subheading Attachment for a MEDLINE Indexing Tool, AMIA 2007
PDF: Multiple Approaches to Fine-Grained Indexing of the Biomedical Literature, 2007 (103kb) Multiple Approaches to Fine-Grained Indexing of the Biomedical Literature, Proc Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2007
User-centered Evaluation
PDF: User-centered Evaluation of the MTI System, 2007 (942kb) User-centered Evaluation of the MTI System, 2007
PDF: A MEDLINE Indexing Experiment Using Terms Suggested by MTI, June 2002 (510kb) A MEDLINE Indexing Experiment Using Terms Suggested by MTI, June 2002
General
PDF: Automatic Indexing of Specialized Documents: Using Generic vs. Domain-Specific Document Representations, BioNLP 2007 (44kb) Automatic Indexing of Specialized Documents: Using Generic vs. Domain-Specific Document Representations, BioNLP 2007
PDF: From Indexing the Biomedical Literature to Coding Clinical Text: Experience with MTI and Machine Learning Approaches, BioNLP 2007 (158kb) From Indexing the Biomedical Literature to Coding Clinical Text: Experience with MTI and Machine Learning Approaches, BioNLP 2007
PDF: Semi-Automatic Indexing of Full Text Biomedical Articles, AMIA 2005 (100kb) Semi-Automatic Indexing of Full Text Biomedical Articles, AMIA 2005
PDF: Evaluation of French and English MeSH Indexing Systems ..., AMIA 2005 (50kb) Evaluation of French and English MeSH Indexing Systems with a Parallel Corpus, AMIA 2005
PDF - The NLM Indexing Initiative's Medical Text Indexer, MedInfo 2004 (54kb) The NLM Indexing Initiative's Medical Text Indexer, MedInfo 2004
PDF: Application of a Medical Text Indexer to an Online Dermatology Atlas, MedInfo 2004 (319kb) Application of a Medical Text Indexer to an Online Dermatology Atlas, MedInfo 2004
PDF: Automated and Semi-automated Indexing, Report to the Board of Regents 2002 (2.1mb) Automated and Semi-automated Indexing, Report to the Board of Regents 2002
PDF: Automatic MeSH Term Assignment and Quality Assessment, AMIA 2001 (130kb) Automatic MeSH Term Assignment and Quality Assessment, AMIA 2001
PDF - The NLM Indexing Initiative paper (139kb) The NLM Indexing Initiative, AMIA 2000
PDF: 1999 Report to the Board of Scientific Counselors (203kb) 1999 Report to the Board of Scientific Counselors
[HTML] (203kb) 1999 AMIA Poster Presentation: Automated Assignment of Medical Subject Headings (HTML)
Technical
PDF: Medical Text Indexer (MTI) Processing Flow (503kb) Medical Text Indexer (MTI) Processing Flow

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Investigating computer-assisted and fully automatic methodologies for indexing biomedical text. Includes the NLM Medical Text Indexer (MTI).
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Develop programs to provide usable semantic representation of biomedical text. Includes the MetaMap and SemRep programs.
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Test collection of manually curated MetaMap ambiguity resolution in support of word sense disambiguation research.
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Static MEDLINE Baselines for use in research involving biomedical citations. Allows for query searches and test collection creation.
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