Comparing Medline citations using modified N-grams.

DISCUSSION: Results show that the detection of duplicate Medline citations can be improved by modifying n-grams and that high performance can also be obtained using only unigrams (F1=0.959), particularly when allowing for substitutions of alternative phrases.
PMID: 23715801 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - May 28, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Nawab RM, Stevenson M, Clough P Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research