Text mining for search term development in systematic reviewing: A discussion of some methods and challenges

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 355-365

  Stansfield, Claire ^a   O'Mara Eves, Alison ^a   Thomas, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clustering; information retrieval; systematic search; text mining

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; DATA MINING; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; SEARCH ENGINE;

DATA MINING; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 85029131377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1250     Document Type: Article

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