Information Retrieval A Health and Biomedical Perspective /

• Main Author: Hersh, William (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Health Informatics,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health informatics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Informatics.

There continue to be enormous changes and advancements in the indexing and retrieval of online health information, fueled by the growth of the Internet and World Wide Web. This has enabled the field of information retrieval, also known as search, to have substantial impact on diverse types of inform...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Concepts
• Terms, Models, Resources, and Evaluation
• Health and Biomedical Information
• State of the Art
• Content
• Indexing
• Retrieval
• Digital Libraries
• Research Directions
• Evaluation
• System and User Research
• Related Topics.