Fuzzy Approach Topic Discovery in Health and Medical Corpora

• DOI: 10.1007/s40815-017-0327-9
• Publication Date: 2017-05-17T13:39:18Z
• Authors: Amir Karami; Aryya Gangopadhyay; Bin Zhou; Hadi Kharrazi
• Keywords: FOS: Computer and information sciences; I.2.3; Computer Science - Computation and Language; I.5; I.2.7; Machine Learning (stat.ML); 02 engineering and technology; H.3.1; H.3.3; I.2.7; I.7; I.5; I.2.3; I.7; 62-07, 62-09, 68T50, 03B52, 03E72; Computer Science - Information Retrieval; H.3.3; Statistics - Machine Learning; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; H.3.1; Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)

The majority of medical documents and electronic health records (EHRs) are in text format that poses a challenge for data processing and finding relevant documents. Looking for ways to automatically retrieve the enormous amount of health and medical knowledge has always been an intriguing topic. Powerful methods have been developed in recent years to make the text processing automatic. One of the popular approaches to retrieve information based on discovering the themes in health & medical corpora is topic modeling, however, this approach still needs new perspectives. In this research we describe fuzzy latent semantic analysis (FLSA), a novel approach in topic modeling using fuzzy perspective. FLSA can handle health & medical corpora redundancy issue and provides a new method to estimate the number of topics. The quantitative evaluations show that FLSA produces superior performance and features to latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), the most popular topic model.<br/>12 Pages, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2017<br/>