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We present a study of the clustering properties of medical publications for the aim of Evidence Based Medicine summarisation. Given a dataset of documents that have been manually assigned to groups related to clinical answers, we apply K-Means clustering and verify that the documents can be clustered reasonably well. We advance the implications of such clustering for natural language processing tasks in Evidence Based Medicine.
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Shash, S.F., Mollá, D. (2013). Clustering of Medical Publications for Evidence Based Medicine Summarisation. In: Peek, N., Marín Morales, R., Peleg, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38326-7_42
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