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Ribeiro-Neto, Berthier; Laender, Alberto H. F.; de Lima, Luciano R. S. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Evaluates the retrieval performance of an algorithm that automatically categorizes medical documents, which consists in assigning an International Code of Disease (ICD) based on well-known information retrieval techniques. Reports on experimental results that tested precision using a database of over 20,000 medical documents. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automation, Classification, Databases
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Chen, Hsinchun; Lally, Ann M.; Zhu, Bin; Chau, Michael – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Discussion of the information needs of medical professionals and researchers focuses on the architecture of a Web portal designed to integrate advanced searching and indexing algorithms, an automatic thesaurus, and self-organizing map technologies to provide searchers with fine-grained results. Reports results of evaluation of spider algorithms…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Needs
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Jones, Steve; Paynter, Gordon W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Discussion of finding relevant documents in electronic document collections focuses on an evaluation of the Kea automatic keyphrase extraction algorithm which was developed by members of the New Zealand Digital Library Project. Results are based on evaluations by human assessors of the quality and appropriateness of Kea keyphrases. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Documentation, Electronic Libraries, Evaluation Methods
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Cohen, Sara; Kanza, Yaron; Kogan, Yakov; Sagiv, Yehoshua; Nutt, Werner; Serebrenik, Alexander – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Describes EquiX, a search language for XML that combines querying with searching to query the data and the meta-data content of Web pages. Topics include search engines; a data model for XML documents; search query syntax; search query semantics; an algorithm for evaluating a query on a document; and indexing EquiX queries. (LRW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Retrieval