Assessing thesaurus-based query expansion using the UMLS Metathesaurus Export

@article{11079902, abstract = {OBJECTIVES: Assess query expansion using thesaurus relationships and definitions in the UMLS Metathesaurus for improving searching performance. METHODS: The queries from a MEDLINE test collection (OHSUMED) were expanded using synonym, hierarchical, and related term information as well as term definitions from the UMLS Metathesaurus. Documents were retrieved from a word-statistical retrieval system and assessed for recall and precision based on relevance judgments from the test collection. RESULTS: All types of query expansion degraded aggregate retrieval performance as measured by recall and precision, although 38.6\% of the queries with synonym expansion and up to 29.7\% of the queries with hierarchical expansion showed improvement. CONCLUSIONS: Thesaurus-based query expansion causes a decline in retrieval performance generally but improves it in specific instances. Further research must focus on identifying instances where performance improves and how it can be exploited by real users.}, address = {Division of Medical Informatics \& Outcomes Research, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA.}, author = {Hersh, W. and Price, S. and Donohoe, L.}, citeulike-article-id = {4416076}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11079902%20}, comment = {1531-605x Evaluation Studies Journal Article}, journal = {Proc AMIA Symp}, keywords = {and, controlled, file-import-09-04-28, govt, information, language, medical, medline, non-phs, phs, research, retrievalmethods, storage, support, system, unified, us, vocabulary}, pages = {344--8}, posted-at = {2009-04-28 16:01:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Assessing thesaurus-based query expansion using the UMLS Metathesaurus}, url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11079902%20}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - 11079902 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4416076 N2 - OBJECTIVES: Assess query expansion using thesaurus relationships and definitions in the UMLS Metathesaurus for improving searching performance. METHODS: The queries from a MEDLINE test collection (OHSUMED) were expanded using synonym, hierarchical, and related term information as well as term definitions from the UMLS Metathesaurus. Documents were retrieved from a word-statistical retrieval system and assessed for recall and precision based on relevance judgments from the test collection. RESULTS: All types of query expansion degraded aggregate retrieval performance as measured by recall and precision, although 38.6% of the queries with synonym expansion and up to 29.7% of the queries with hierarchical expansion showed improvement. CONCLUSIONS: Thesaurus-based query expansion causes a decline in retrieval performance generally but improves it in specific instances. Further research must focus on identifying instances where performance improves and how it can be exploited by real users. JF - Proc AMIA Symp AD - Division of Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA. EP - 8 TI - Assessing thesaurus-based query expansion using the UMLS Metathesaurus SP - 344 KW - and KW - controlled KW - file-import-09-04-28 KW - govt KW - information KW - language KW - medical KW - medline KW - non-phs KW - phs KW - research KW - retrievalmethods KW - storage KW - support KW - system KW - unified KW - us KW - vocabulary N1 - 1531-605x Evaluation Studies Journal Article AU - Hersh, W AU - Price, S AU - Donohoe, L PY - 2000/// UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11079902%20 ER -