Extended Boolean retrieval for systematic biomedical reviews

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 102, Issue , 2010, Pages 117-125

  Pohl, Stefan ^a   Zobel, Justin ^a   Moffat, Alistair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical; Effectiveness; Extended Boolean retrieval; Information retrieval; P norm; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL; EFFECTIVENESS; EXTENDED BOOLEAN RETRIEVAL; P-NORM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84868696219     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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