Performance evaluation of unified medical language system<sup>®</sup>'s synonyms expansion to query PubMed

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>PubMed is the main access to medical literature on the Internet. In order to enhance the performance of its information retrieval tools, primarily non-indexed citations, the authors propose a method: expanding users' queries usi...

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Main Authors: Griffon Nicolas, Chebil Wiem, Rollin Laetitia, Kerdelhue Gaetan, Thirion Benoit, Gehanno Jean-François, Darmoni Stéfan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-02-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/12/12