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ERIC Number: EJ515107
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8231
Information Retrieval in Medicine: The SAPHIRE Experience.
Hersh, William R.; Hickam, David
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v46 n10 p743-47 Dec 1995
Describes the SAPHIRE (Semantic and Probabilistic Heuristic Information Retrieval Environment) that was developed to identify optimal approaches to indexing, retrieval, and evaluation of information retrieval systems in the biomedical domain. Six evaluation studies that have been done with SAPHIRE are summarized and future challenges are discussed. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Databases, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society), Indexing, Information Retrieval, Online Systems, Semantics
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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