Towards effective genomic information retrieval: The impact of query complexity and expansion strategies

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 194-208

  Mu, Xiangming ^a   Lu, Kun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health information retrieval; Query complexity; Query expansion; Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBERS; DATA SETS; EXPANSION STRATEGIES; FLEXIBLE QUERIES; GENOMIC INFORMATION; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; QUERY COMPLEXITY; QUERY EXPANSION; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; RETRIEVAL QUERY; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; TEST COLLECTION; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

GENES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; LINGUISTICS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

EXPANSION;

EID: 77950200637     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551509357856     Document Type: Article

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