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Incorporating Figure Captions And Descriptive Text Into Mesh Term Indexing: A Deep Learning Approach, Xindi Wang
Incorporating Figure Captions And Descriptive Text Into Mesh Term Indexing: A Deep Learning Approach, Xindi Wang
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The exponential increase of available documents online makes document classification an important application in natural language processing. The goal of text classification is to automatically assign categories to documents. Traditional text classifiers depend on features, such as, vocabulary and user-specified information which mainly relies on prior knowledge. In contrast, deep learning automatically learns effective features from data instead of adopting human-designed features. In this thesis, we specifically focus on biomedical document classification. Beyond text information from abstract and title, we also consider image and table captions, as well as paragraphs associated with images and tables, which we demonstrate to be …