Essie: A Concept-based Search Engine for Structured Biomedical Text

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-263

  Ide, Nicholas C ^a   Loane, Russell F ^a   Demner Fushman, Dina ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSIE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBABILITY; SEARCH ENGINE;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; ALGORITHMS; GENOMICS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (U.S.); SOFTWARE; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34247370651     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2233     Document Type: Article

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