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  <Title>Determining the Specificity of Terms based on Information Theoretic Measures</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper proposed specificity measuring methods for terms based on information theory like measures using compositional and contextual information of terms. The methods are experimented on the terms in MeSH thesaurus.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Hybrid method showed the best precision of 82.0%, because two methods complemented each other.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> As the proposed methods don't use domain dependent information, they can be adapted to other domains without extra processes.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> In the future, we will modify the system to handle various term formations such as abbreviated form. Finally we will apply the proposed methods to the terms of other specific domains.</Paragraph>
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