As the health care industry becomes increasingly dependent on electronic information, the need for sophisticated information retrieval systems and for knowledgeable people to design, purchase, and use them also increases. Although a number of books have been devoted to the mechanics of on-line searching and the structure of general retrieval systems, no book has addressed the specific needs and concerns of health care information retrieval systems. Dr. Hersh's book fills that gap.
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17
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XVI, 320 p. 17 illus.
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ISBN-13
978-1-4757-2529-2 (9781475725292)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-2529-2
Schweitzer Klassifikation
I. Basic Concepts.- 1. Terms, Models, and Resources.- 2. Health Information.- 3. System Evaluation.- II. State of the Art.- 4. Databases.- 5. Indexing.- 6. Retrieval.- 7. Evaluation.- III. Research Directions.- 8. Word-Statistical Systems.- 9. Linguistic Systems.- 10. Assisting the User.- IV. Special Topics.- 11. The Clinical Narrative.- 12. Hypertext and Hypermedia.- 13. The Internet.- Appendix 1: Ten Sample Documents to Illustrate Indexing and Retrieval.- Appendix 2: Inverted File of Words from Documents of Appendix 1.- Appendix 3: Document Vectors from Documents of Appendix 1 with Weighting Measures.- Appendix 4: Inverted File of MeSH Terms from Documents of Appendix 1 with Term Frequency and Postings.- References.
