Knowledge-based query expansion to support scenario-specific retrieval of medical freetext

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1076-1083

  Liu, Zhenyu ^a   Chu, Wesley W ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Query Expansion; Knowledge Based Approach; Medical Free Text Retrieval

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC QUERY EXPANSION; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH; MEDICAL FREE-TEXT RETRIEVAL;

DATA PRIVACY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33644539506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1066922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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