MedicoPort: A medical search engine for all

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-86

  Can, Aysu Betin ^a   Baykal, Nazife ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Internet; Medical information retrieval; Topical crawler; UMLS

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL EDUCATION; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE; USER INTERFACES;

MEDICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVALS; MEDICAL SEARCH ENGINE; TOPICAL CRAWLERS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM (UMLS);

SEARCH ENGINES;

ARTICLE; INTERNET; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICOPORT; NOMENCLATURE; SEARCH ENGINE; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; FOCUS GROUPS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TURKEY;

EID: 33847784920     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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