Skip to content
University of Maryland LibrariesDigital Repository at the University of Maryland
    • Login
    View Item 
    •   DRUM
    • Theses and Dissertations from UMD
    • UMD Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    •   DRUM
    • Theses and Dissertations from UMD
    • UMD Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    AUTOMATED KEYWORD EXTRACTION FROM BIO-MEDICAL LITERATURE WITH CONCENTRATION ON ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Zuhl_umd_0117N_10169.pdf (1.202Mb)
    No. of downloads: 1353

    Date
    2009
    Author
    Zuhl, Maya
    Advisor
    Pop, Mihai
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    The explosive growth of bio-medical literature makes it increasingly difficult and time consuming to keep up with newly discovered and published information. The extraction of knowledge from papers is critical in enabling computational analysis of biological data. In the last decade, tremendous effort has been put into development of automated and semi-automated tools for knowledge discovery and extraction from text, as an alternative to monotonous and time-consuming manual processing. This thesis research was focused on determining whether minor human supervision can improve the process of automated bio-medical text annotation. One of the main outcomes of this study is a tool that requires minimal effort and time from scientists to reach high precision in semi-automated annotation. The task we targeted is the extraction of keywords related to antibiotic resistance in bacteria. The tool is based on a machine learning algorithm that is retrained several times to achieve the best accuracy.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9442
    Collections
    • Computer Science Theses and Dissertations
    • UMD Theses and Dissertations

    DRUM is brought to you by the University of Maryland Libraries
    University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011 (301)314-1328.
    Please send us your comments.
    Web Accessibility
     

     

    Browse

    All of DRUMCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister
    Pages
    About DRUMAbout Download Statistics

    DRUM is brought to you by the University of Maryland Libraries
    University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011 (301)314-1328.
    Please send us your comments.
    Web Accessibility