Classification of Veterinary Subjects in Medical Literature and Clinical Summaries.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Human and veterinary medicine are practiced separately, but literature databases such as Pubmed include articles from both fields. This impedes supporting clinical decisions with automated information retrieval, because treatment considerations would not ignore the discipline of mixed sources. Here we investigate data-driven methods from computational linguistics for automatically distinguishing between human and veterinary medical texts.

Authors

  • Marcel Hiltner
    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Medical Informatics, Erlangen, Germany.
  • Christian Gulden
    Chair of Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
  • Dennis Toddenroth
    Institute for Medical Informatics, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.