Biomedical ontology improves biomedical literature clustering performance: a comparison study
by Illhoi Yoo, Xiaohua Hu, Il-Yeol Song
International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA), Vol. 3, No. 3, 2007

Abstract: Document clustering has been used for better document retrieval and text mining. In this paper, we investigate if a biomedical ontology improves biomedical literature clustering performance in terms of the effectiveness and the scalability. For this investigation, we perform a comprehensive comparison study of various document clustering approaches such as hierarchical clustering methods, Bisecting K-means, K-means and Suffix Tree Clustering (STC). According to our experiment results, a biomedical ontology significantly enhances clustering quality on biomedical documents. In addition, our results show that decent document clustering approaches, such as Bisecting K-means, K-means and STC, gains some benefit from the ontology while hierarchical algorithms showing the poorest clustering quality do not reap the benefit of the biomedical ontology.

Online publication date: Tue, 04-Sep-2007

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