Terms Selecting Study of Revision of Traditional Chinese Medical Subject Headings Thesaurus, Based on Terms Frequency Statistics of Subject Headings Indexes and Keywords
10.3969/j.issn.1005-5304.2013.10.007
- VernacularTitle:基于文献标引词频统计的《中国中医药学主题词表》选词研究
- Author:
Xianrong WEN
;
Jing ZHANG
;
Jing LIU
;
Lei LEI
;
Ce YANG
;
Haiyan LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Traditional Chinese Medicine Subject Headings Thesaurus;
revision;
literature indexing;
terms frequency statistics
- From:
Chinese Journal of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine
2013;(10):16-18
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To provide basis for revision of Traditional Chinese Medical Subject Headings (TCMeSH) Thesaurus by word selecting study using statistics of terms frequency. Methods The subject headings indexes and keywords were selected from Traditional Chinese Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System in recent five years. MS Access was used to analyze subject headings and keywords. Results In 245 680 articles, 18 796 subject headings were used and 6940 TCMeSH were found, which were about 83.47%of subject headings in TCMeSH Thesaurus (2007 edition). In 15 subject headings categories, utilization frequency of medicinal plants category was 69.97%that was the lowest, followed by the natural science category (71.01%) and mental disease of traditional Chinese medicine and psychology category (82.81%). At the same time, 136 832 keywords were included in 245 680 articles, in which there were 3485 words with frequency higher than 10. After deleting 576 invaluable words, 368 keywords were recommended to subject heading or lead-in words and 2541 keywords would be used in revising TCMeSH Thesaurus in the future. Conclusion The basis for the scientificity and practicability of the revision of TCMeSH Thesaurus was demonstrated by statistical analysis of terms frequency.
