Searching in Medline: Query expansion and manual indexing evaluation

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 781-789

  Abdou, Samir ^a   Savoy, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blind query expansion; Evaluation; Genomics TREC; Language model; Manual indexing; Medline; MeSH; Probabilistic model; Rocchio query expansion

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

BLIND QUERY EXPANSION; GENOMICS TREC; MANUAL INDEXING; ROCCHIO QUERY EXPANSION;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 39649121049     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.03.013     Document Type: Article

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