DisArticle: a web server for SVM-based discrimination of articles on traditional medicine

摘要

Background Much research has been done in Northeast Asia to show the efficacy of traditional medicine. While MEDLINE contains many biomedical articles including those on traditional medicine, it does not categorize those articles by specific research area. The aim of this study was to provide a method that searches for articles only on traditional medicine in Northeast Asia, including traditional Chinese medicine, from among the articles in MEDLINE. Results This research established an SVM-based classifier model to identify articles on traditional medicine. The TAK?+?HM classifier, trained with the features of title, ,