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

Information Retrieval

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-202

  Liu, Zhenyu ^a   Chu, Wesley W ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge based information retrieval; Knowledge based systems; Medical information retrieval; Query expansion; Scenario specific information retrieval

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847005046     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-006-9020-6     Document Type: Article

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