1 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2 Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
3 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Machine learning for biomedical literature triage.

PLoS One. 2014;9(12):e115892

Authors: Almeida H, Meurs MJ, Kosseim L, Butler G, Tsang A

Abstract

This paper presents a machine learning system for supporting the first task of the biological literature manual curation process, called triage. We compare the performance of various classification models, by experimenting with dataset sampling factors and a set of features, as well as three different machine learning algorithms (Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine and Logistic Model Trees). The results show that the most fitting model to handle the imbalanced datasets of the triage classification task is obtained by using domain relevant features, an under-sampling technique, and the Logistic Model Trees algorithm.

PMID: 25551575 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]