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The National Library of Medicine indexer assignment dataset: A new large‐scale dataset for reviewer assignment research

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  • Alastair R. Rae
  • James G. Mork
  • Dina Demner‐Fushman

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MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) journal citation database. It contains over 28 million references to biomedical and life science journal articles, and a key feature of the database is that all articles are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The library employs a team of MeSH indexers, and in recent years they have been asked to index close to 1 million articles per year in order to keep MEDLINE up to date. An important part of the MEDLINE indexing process is the assignment of articles to indexers. High quality and timely indexing is only possible when articles are assigned to indexers with suitable expertise. This article introduces the NLM indexer assignment dataset: a large dataset of 4.2 million indexer article assignments for articles indexed between 2011 and 2019. The dataset is shown to be a valuable testbed for expert matching and assignment algorithms, and indexer article assignment is also found to be useful domain‐adaptive pre‐training for the closely related task of reviewer assignment.

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  • Alastair R. Rae & James G. Mork & Dina Demner‐Fushman, 2023. "The National Library of Medicine indexer assignment dataset: A new large‐scale dataset for reviewer assignment research," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 74(2), pages 205-218, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jinfst:v:74:y:2023:i:2:p:205-218
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.24722
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