Title: Searching and accessing medical literature

Authors: F. Wiesman, A. Hasman

Addresses: Department of Medical Informatics, Maastricht University, Postbus 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. ' Department of Medical Informatics, Maastricht University, Postbus 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of searching and accessing electronically stored documents, especially medical literature. Our approach combines meta-information about the documents with domain knowledge about the topics of the documents. A graphical browser is used to uniformly present the relations between the domain and the documents. In addition to browsing oriented search, query-oriented search is also supported. An application to the medical domain is discussed, as well as how the approach relates to the World Wide Web.

Keywords: information retrieval; browsing; thesauri; semantic network; biomedical literature; world wide web; user interfaces; internet.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHTM.1999.004483

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 1999 Vol.1 No.3/4, pp.281 - 287

Published online: 10 May 2004 *

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