Categorization-driven cross-language retrieval of medical information

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 501-510

  Freitas Jr , Hermes R ^a   Ribeiro Neto, Berthier ^b,c   Vale, Rodrigo F ^a   Laender, Alberto H F ^d   Lima, Luciano R S ^d  

^a Google Inc   (Brazil)

^b Akwan Information Technologies   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d SARAH NETWORK OF REHABILITATION HOSPITALS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CROSS-LANGUAGE RETRIEVAL METHOD; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR) TECHNIQUES; SPACE MODEL ALGORITHM;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33645015144     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20320     Document Type: Article

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