Visual interactions with Web database content

In this paper,we describeanexperimental web application, Visual MeSH that supports dynamic user interaction with medical vocabulary databasesand literature databases. Visual MeSH is a client-server application based on Java RMI technology. It provides multiple views of MeSH term relationships and allows the user to explore term relationships visually. Visual MeSH helps the userimprove both searchprecision and recall by making it easy to convert user's natural language queries to controlled vocabulary-basedqueries. Keywords Visual accessto databases,visual displays, medical databases, client-server applications, Javaapplications.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: NPIV
• Authors: Xia Lin, Lewis Hassell, Il-Yeol Song, Tamas E. Doszkocs
• Keywords: Client-server Applications, MeSH Term Relationships, NPIV 1998, Visual MeSH, Visualization