Due to the great variation of biological names in biomedical text, appropriate tokenization is an important preprocessing step for biomedical information retrieval. Despite its im...
This paper shows how a Fuzzy Ontology based approach can improve semantic documents retrieval. After formally defining a Fuzzy Knowledge Base, it is discussed a special type of ne...
The MEDLINE database is the world largest repository of bio-medical abstracts. It is a central information entry point for most biologists despite the growing availability of full-...
In this paper, we present Concept Chain Queries (CCQ), a special case of text mining in document collections focusing on detecting links between two topics across text documents. ...
— In vector space model (VSM), textual documents are represented as vectors in the term space. Therefore, there are two issues in this representation, i.e. (1) what should a term...