{"id":126,"date":"2014-06-20T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T09:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at\/~mt\/?p=126"},"modified":"2014-08-01T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:26:28","slug":"call-for-master-thesis-on-biomedical-concept-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itec.aau.at\/~mt\/2014\/06\/call-for-master-thesis-on-biomedical-concept-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Master Thesis on Biomedical Concept Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> The master thesis has been assigned to Florian Winkler as of June 26, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at\/~mt\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/medical_concept_detection.pdf\">call for a master thesis on biomedical concept detection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br \/>\nDetecting biomedical concepts in text documents or queries is a useful tool for improving biomedical information retrieval or navigating biomedical document collections. Known successful techniques for biomedical concept detection rely on natural language processing and\/or machine learning and incur a substantial processing overhead at the document indexing stage compared to keyword-only indexing.<br \/>\nThe goal of this master thesis is to evaluate a novel efficient concept detection algorithm based on position-dependent keyword matching on a recent public biomedical data set. Concepts are taken from a biomedical thesaurus called Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Results should be compared to the accuracy achieved by the well-known MetaMap concept detector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: The master thesis has been assigned to Florian Winkler as of June 26, 2014. This is a call for a master thesis on biomedical concept detection. Abstract: Detecting biomedical concepts in text documents or queries is a useful tool for improving biomedical information retrieval or navigating biomedical document collections. Known successful techniques for biomedical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itec.aau.at\/~mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itec.aau.at\/~mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itec.aau.at\/~mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itec.aau.at\/~mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itec.aau.at\/~mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.itec.aau.at\/~mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.itec.aau.at\/~mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itec.aau.at\/~mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itec.aau.at\/~mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itec.aau.at\/~mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}