Information retrieval

By William R. Hersh

Subjects: Information Systems, Medical informatics, Abstracting and Indexing, Information Storage and Retrieval, Information storage and retrieval systems, medicine, Informatique, Information storage and retrieval systems, Médecine, Medical Informatics, Systèmes d'information, Medicine

Description: This work covers the theory, implementation and evaluation of information retrieval (IR) systems in health and biomedicine. The three sections cover the basic concepts of IR, the current state-of-the-art in commercial retrieval systems and the major threads of research and development in efforts to build better IR systems.