Improving medical information retrieval with PICO element detection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5993 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 50-61

  Boudin, Florian ^a   Shi, Lixin ^a   Nie, Jian Yun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

CLINICAL STUDY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL TREATMENT; P-ELEMENTS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; RETRIEVAL PROCESS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77952317357     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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