Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
Proceedings of ACM SAC 2006
Publication Date
Page Number
1700
Conference Name
ACM Symposium of Applied Computing 2006
Conference Location
Dijon, France
Conference Sponsor
ACM
Conference Date
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Abstract
In this paper, we propose to improve the effectiveness of biomedical information retrieval via a medical thesaurus. We analyzed the deficiencies of the existing medical thesauri and reconstructed a new thesaurus, called MEDTHES, which follows the ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2003 standard. MEDTHES also endows the users with fine-grained control of information retrieval by providing functions to calculate the semantic similarity between words. We demonstrate the usage of MEDTHES through an existing data search engine.
