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Title

Information retrieval : a health and biomedical perspective / William R. Hersh.

Author

Hersh, William R.

Publication

New York : Springer, c2003.

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Description

xiv, 517 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• Reflecting the enormous changes and advancements in the indexing and retrieval of online information, aided by the Internet, this book details the technical state-of-the-art and research results in health and biomedical information retrieval. William R. Hersh illustrates in Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective, Second Edition, the tremendous impact information retrieval has had on clinical, consumer health, and genomics information in light of the growth of the World Wide Web.
• Designed for use by professionals and students, Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective, Second Edition, reaches across disciplines to address the needs of those who study, develop, and evaluate health and biomedical information, as well as computer scientists, library and information scientists, and information technology developers who build databases, search engines, and Web sites for hospitals, universities, and other professional organizations. Heavily updated, this book is divided into three sections presenting basic concepts, state of the art, and research directions.
• This book covers the theory and practical application of all aspects of health information retrieval systems. Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective, Second Edition, is an essential resource for healthcare administrators, medical informaticians, library information scientists, information technology developers, and academicians in understanding technology and remaining on the cutting edge in today's progressive and ever-changing world of healthcare.

Series Statement

Health informatics series

Uniform Title

Computers in health care (New York, N.Y.)

Subject

• New Trier High School (Winnetka, Ill.) > Authorship
• Medical informatics
• Information storage and retrieval systems > Medicine
• Medical Informatics
• Information Storage and Retrieval
• Information Systems
• Medical Informatics Applications

Note

• First ed. has subtitle: a health care perspective.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 450-502) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Series Preface vii Preface ix PART I BASIC CONCEPTS CHAPTER 1 Terms, Models, and Resources 3 CHAPTER 2 Health and Biomedical Information 22 CHAPTER 3 System Evaluation 83 PART II STATE OF THE ART CHAPTER 4 Content 117 CHAPTER 5 Indexing 146 CHAPTER 6 Retrieval 183 CHAPTER 7 Evaluation 219 PART III RESEARCH DIRECTIONS CHAPTER 8 Lexical-Statistical Systems 265 CHAPTER 9 Linguistic Systems 310 CHAPTER 10 Augmenting Systems for Users 356 CHAPTER 11 Information Extraction 397 APPENDIX 1 Ten Sample Documents to Illustrate Indexing and Retrieval 431 APPENDIX 2 Inverted File of Words from Documents of Appendix 1 435 APPENDIX 3 Document Vectors for Words from Documents of Appendix 1 with Weighting Measures 443 APPENDIX 4 Inverted File of MeSH Terms from Documents of Appendix 1 with Term Frequency and Postings 448 References 450 Index 503.

ISBN

0387955224 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002075762

OCLC

• 50064826
• SCSB-10313511

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library