An empirical study of gene synonym query expansion in biomedical information retrieval

Information Retrieval

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-68

  Lu, Yue ^a   Fang, Hui ^b   Zhai, Chengxiang ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical information retrieval; Language modeling; Synonym query expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149260392     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-008-9075-7     Document Type: Article

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