Information Retrieval: a health and biomedical perspective

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2003 - Computers - 517 pages
Reflecting the enormous changes and advancements in the indexing and retrieval of online health information made possible by the Internet, this title book summarizes technical state-of-the-art research results in health/medical information retrieval. Coupled with the growth of the World Wide Web, the topic of information retrieval has had a tremendous impact on consumer health information and genomics.
 

Contents

CHAPTER 1
16
Health and Biomedical Information
22
CHAPTER 3
79
Content
117
Indexing
146
Retrieval
183
Evaluation
219
LexicalStatistical Systems
265
CHAPTER 9
310
CHAPTER 10
356
CHAPTER 11
397
APPENDIX 1
431
with Term Frequency and Postings
448
Index
503
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