Abstract. Searching specialized collections, such as biomedical literature, typically requires intimate knowledge of a specialized terminology. Hence, it can be a disappointing exp...
Background: Although there are a large number of thesauri for the biomedical domain many of them lack coverage in terms and their variant forms. Automatic thesaurus construction b...
Computers have changed the way we live, work, and even recreate. Now, they are transforming how we think about and treat human disease. In particular, advanced techniques in biome...
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
The OASIS (Ontologically Augmented Spatial Information System) project explores terminology systems for thematic and spatial access in digital library applications. A prototype im...
Harith Alani, Christopher B. Jones, Douglas Tudhop...