For this evaluation , we randomly selected 50 abstracts with disorders indexed as the main topic from abstracts retrieved using PubMed on the five clinical questions described in Sneiderman et al. ( 2005 ) .
semantic characteristics of medline citations useful for therapeutic decisionmaking
Charles Sneiderman Dina Demner-Fushman Marcelo Fiszman Thomas C Rindflesch
For some abstracts , MeSH headings can be used as ground truth , because one of the human indexers ' tasks in assigning terms is to identify the main topic of the article ( sometimes a disorder ) . For this evaluation , we randomly selected 50 abstracts with disorders indexed as the main topic from abstracts retrieved using PubMed on the five clinical questions described in Sneiderman et al. ( 2005 ) . We applied our problem extractor on different segments of the abstract : the title only , the title and first two sentences , and the entire abstract .
For this evaluation , we randomly selected 50 abstracts with disorders indexed as the main topic from abstracts retrieved using PubMed on the five clinical questions described in @@CITATION .