MedlineRanker
Learned about MedlineRanker through this recent article:
The biomedical literature is represented by millions of abstracts available in the Medline database. These abstracts can be queried with the PubMed interface, which provides a keyword-based Boolean search engine. This approach shows limitations in the retrieval of abstracts related to very specific topics, as it is difficult for a non-expert user to find all of the most relevant keywords related to a biomedical topic. Additionally, when searching for more general topics, the same approach may return hundreds of unranked references. To address these issues, text mining tools have been developed to help scientists focus on relevant abstracts. We have implemented the MedlineRanker webserver, which allows a flexible ranking of Medline for a topic of interest without expert knowledge. Given some abstracts related to a topic, the program deduces automatically the most discriminative words in comparison to a random selection. These words are used to score other abstracts, including those from not yet annotated recent publications, which can be then ranked by relevance. We show that our tool can be highly accurate and that it is able to process millions of abstracts in a practical amount of time. MedlineRanker is free for use and is available at http://cbdm.mdc-berlin.de/tools/medlineranker.
[PubMed]
Free Full Text: [HTML] [PDF]
Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 July 1; 37: W141–W146.
Published online 2009 July 1. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp353.
PMCID: PMC2703945
Like this post? Subscribe to the RSS feed!
March 16th, 2010 at 7:28 am
Learned about MedlineRanker through this recent article: The biomedical literature is represented by millions of abstracts available in the Medline database. These abstracts can be queried with the PubMed interface, which provides a keyword-based Boolean search engine. This approach shows limitations in the retrieval of abstracts related to very specific topics, as it is difficult for [...]
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Awesome David! Thank you for pointing out this great new tool. It is exactly what I have been looking for– a way to combine bibliometrics (spelling) with Pubmed! I will have to devote some time to try it out and really evaluate it.
Alisha
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Alisha, if you’d like to submit your evaluation as a guest post, please let me know.
August 4th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
[...] trackback I wanted to write about MedlineRanker yesterday, but I finished too many posts and now David Rothman shared it on his great blog. The MedlineRanker web server is dedicated to scientists interested to [...]
August 6th, 2009 at 1:33 am
[...] nbsp;http://davidrothman.net/2009/08/03/medli… [...]
August 10th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
[...] is free for use and is available at http://cbdm.mdc-berlin.de/tools/medlineranker. 03 August, on davidrothman.net (via [...]