OBJECTIVE This paper explores alternative approaches for the evaluation of an automatic indexing tool for MEDLINE, complementing the traditional precision and recall method. MATERIALS AND METHODS The performance of MTI, the Medical Text Indexer used at NLM to produce MeSH recommendations for biomedical journal articles is evaluated on a random set of MEDLINE citations. The evaluation examines...

To predict the future in research is impossible because already an adequate appreciation of today’s research is most difficult as I know from personal experience. My pre-predecessor, Prof. E. Schmiedt, invented extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) with his group [1]. He told me that when they sent their first abstracts to the American Urological Associationtheywererejectedfor2consecutiv...