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IUI
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Context-based similar words detection and its application in specialized search engines
This paper presents a new context-based method for automatic detection and extraction of similar and related words from texts. Finding similar words is a very important task for m...
Hisham Al-Mubaid, Ping Chen
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Using local precision to compare search engines in consumer health information retrieval
We have conducted a user study to evaluate several generalist and health-specific search engines on health information retrieval. Users evaluated the relevance of the top 30 docum...
Carla Teixeira Lopes, Cristina Ribeiro
IR
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Negation recognition in medical narrative reports
Substantial medical data, such as discharge summaries and operative reports are stored in electronic textual form. Databases containing free-text clinical narratives reports often...
Lior Rokach, Roni Romano, Oded Maimon
DSS
2006
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13 years 6 months ago
CMedPort: An integrated approach to facilitating Chinese medical information seeking
As the number of non-English resources available on the Web is increasing rapidly, developing information retrieval techniques for non-English languages is becoming an urgent and ...
Yilu Zhou, Jialun Qin, Hsinchun Chen
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano