3 EXTRACTIVE SUMMARIZATIONCAL PROCEDURES TO DIAGNOSTIC TESTS.FOR EAC...

4.3 Extractive Summarization

cal procedures to diagnostic tests.

For each MEDLINE citation, our system gener-

Our extractor for interventions relies on

ates a short extractive summary consisting of three

MetaMap (Aronson, 2001), a program that au-

tomatically identifies entities corresponding to

elements: the main intervention (which is usu-

ally more specific than the cluster label); the ti-

scored using regular expression patterns (Lin,

tle of the abstract; and the top-scoring outcome