MedSearch: A Retrieval System for Medical Information Based on Semantic Similarity

MedSearch1 is a complete retrieval system for Medline, the premier bibliographic database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). MedSearch implements SSRM, a novel information retrieval method for discovering similarities between documents containing semantically similar but not necessarily lexically similar terms.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ERCIMDL
• Authors: Angelos Hliaoutakis, Giannis Varelas, Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Evangelos E. Milios
• Keywords: Complete Retrieval, Education, ERCIMDL 2006, Premier Bibliographic Database, Similar Terms