Effective collection metasearch in a hierarchical environment

Conrad, Jack G.; Yang, Changwen; Claussen, Joanne S.

doi:10.1145/564437.564449

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“…Such a browsing method forces the user to navigate the conceptual hierarchical structure. In these directories, searches can be limited to a specific concept 13,14 and its subconcept contents. However, while in Web directories documents are classified along one, two, or a small number of categories, in the medical domain documents are often classified by a multitude of concepts, often as many as a dozen or even tens of concepts, a property which can be further exploited for better retrieval.…”

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confidence: 99%