Optimal document-indexing vocabulary for MEDLINE

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 503-514

  Srinivasan, Padmini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); OPTIMIZATION; TESTING; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

FREE TEXT INDEXING; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030242707     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4573(96)00025-8     Document Type: Article

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