Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Effective retrieval of structured documents
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Modern Information Retrieval
Probabilistic models of information retrieval based on measuring the divergence from randomness
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Simple BM25 extension to multiple weighted fields
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Lucene in Action (In Action series)
Lucene in Action (In Action series)
Term identification in the biomedical literature
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Named entity recognition in biomedicine
Gene name ambiguity of eukaryotic nomenclatures
Bioinformatics
The influence of basic tokenization on biomedical document retrieval
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An empirical study of tokenization strategies for biomedical information retrieval
Information Retrieval
Controlling the complexity in comparing search user interfaces via user studies
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Questionnaire mode effects in interactive information retrieval experiments
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Searching in Medline: Query expansion and manual indexing evaluation
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Estimating average precision when judgments are incomplete
Knowledge and Information Systems
On test collections for adaptive information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice
Modern Information Retrieval
Bioinformatics
Biomedical information retrieval: the BioTracer approach
ITBAM'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Information technology in bio- and medical informatics
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The large amount and diversity of available biomedical information has put a high demand on existing search systems. Such a tool should be able to not only retrieve the sought information, but also filter out irrelevant documents, while giving the relevant ones the highest ranking. Focusing on biomedical information, this work investigates how to improve the ability for a system to find and rank relevant documents. To achieve this goal, we apply a series of information retrieval techniques to search in biomedical information and combine them in an optimal manner. These techniques include extending and using well-established information retrieval (IR) similarity models such as the Vector Space Model (VSM) and BM25 and their underlying scoring schemes. The techniques also allow users to affect the ranking according to their view of relevance. The techniques have been implemented and tested in a proof-of-concept prototype called BioTracer, which extends a Java-based open source search engine library. The results from our experiments using the TREC 2004 Genomic Track collection are promising. Our investigation have also revealed that involving the user in the search process will indeed have positive effects on the ranking of search results, and that the approaches used in BioTracer can be used to meet the user's information needs.