Design and evaluation of the iMed intelligent medical search engine

Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1379-1390

  Luo, Gang ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET USERS; KEY TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE; MULTIPLE QUERIES; QUERY INTERFACES; SEARCH RESULTS; WEB SEARCH ENGINES;

BIOINFORMATICS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ONTOLOGY; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 67649639285     PISSN: 10844627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2009.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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