[Asis-l] Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective (Second Edition)

[William Hersh]

Information Retrieval:  A Health and Biomedical Perspective (Second Edition)

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William R. Hersh
Springer-Verlag, 2003

Table of Contents

I.  Basic Concepts

1.  Terms, Models, and Resources
2.  Health and Biomedical Information
3.  System Evaluation

II.  State of the Art

4.  Content
5.  Indexing
6.  Retrieval
7.  Evaluation

III.  Research Directions

8.  Lexical-Statistical Systems
9.  Linguistic Systems
10.  Augmenting Systems for Users
11.  Information Extraction