Exploring the use of concept spaces to improve medical information retrieval

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 171-186

  Houston, Andrea L ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^b   Schatz, Bruce R ^c   Hubbard, Susan M ^d   Sewell, Robin R ^b   Ng, Tobun D ^e  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; THESAURI;

MEDICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034541094     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(00)00097-X     Document Type: Article

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