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OTM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Biomedical Retrieval: How Can a Thesaurus Help?
Abstract. Searching specialized collections, such as biomedical literature, typically requires intimate knowledge of a specialized terminology. Hence, it can be a disappointing exp...
Leonie IJzereef, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Synonym set extraction from the biomedical literature by lexical pattern discovery
Background: Although there are a large number of thesauri for the biomedical domain many of them lack coverage in terms and their variant forms. Automatic thesaurus construction b...
John McCrae, Nigel Collier
IEEEPACT
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Biomedical Computing and Visualization
Computers have changed the way we live, work, and even recreate. Now, they are transforming how we think about and treat human disease. In particular, advanced techniques in biome...
Chris Johnson
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
ERCIMDL
2000
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Associative and Spatial Relationships in Thesaurus-Based Retrieval
The OASIS (Ontologically Augmented Spatial Information System) project explores terminology systems for thematic and spatial access in digital library applications. A prototype im...
Harith Alani, Christopher B. Jones, Douglas Tudhop...