Toward automatic evaluation of medical abstracts: The current value of sentiment analysis and machine learning for classification of the importance of PubMed abstracts of randomized trials for stroke.

Journal: Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Text mining with automatic extraction of key features is gaining increasing importance in science and particularly medicine due to the rapidly increasing number of publications.

Authors

  • Igor Fischer
    Division of Informatics and Statistics, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Hans-Jakob Steiger
    Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Moorenstraße 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany. steiger@uni-duesseldorf.de.