Searching for medical information on the Web has become highly popular, but it remains a challenging task because searchers are often uncertain about their exact medical situation...
The main goal of this research is to improve Information Retrieval Systems by enabling them to generate search outcomes that are relevant and customized to each specific user. Our ...
We participated in the CLEF 2001 monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual tasks. Our interests in these tasks are to test the utility of applying Chinese word segmentation algorit...
MedSearch1 is a complete retrieval system for Medline, the premier bibliographic database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). MedSearch implements SSRM, a novel informa...
In this paper we describe our participation in the 2010 CLEF-IP Prior Art Retrieval task where we examined the impact of information in different sections of patent documents, nam...