Disambiguating biomedical acronyms using EMIM

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1213-1214

  Limsopatham, Nut ^a   Santos, Rodrygo L T ^a   Macdonald, Craig ^a   Ounis, Iadh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acronym expansion; Biomedical retrieval

Indexed keywords

AD-HOC TASK; BIOMEDICAL IR; BIOMEDICAL RETRIEVAL; GENOMICS; MUTUAL INFORMATION MEASURES; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE;

EID: 80052119848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2010125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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