Information retrieval
Subtitle: a health and biomedical perspective
By: William Hersh.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Health informatics; Health informatics
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780387787022; 9780387787039
Subjects: Medical informatics; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Medicine; Medical Informatics; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems; Médecine -- Informatique; Systèmes d'information -- Médecine
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.
Notes: "The first two editions of this book were published in 1996 and 2003, respectively"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-472) and index.