CMedPort: An integrated approach to facilitating Chinese medical information seeking

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1431-1448

  Zhou, Yilu ^a   Qin, Jialun ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cross regional search; Information retrieval; Internet searching and browsing; Meta search; Search engine; Summarization

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA PROCESSING; INTERNET; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ONLINE SEARCHING; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES;

CMEDPORT; CROSS REGIONAL SEARCH; INTERNET SEARCHING AND BROWSING; META SEARCH;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33750468689     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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