introduction: the manual and paper-based process of production and storage of medical records in iran have led to difficulties in filing and retrieval of the medical records. one of the usual solutions is using computerized medical records via electronic storage of paper-based medical records. the aim of this study was to recognize using computerized medical records in nine selected hospitals. ...

much attention has recently been paid to natural language processing in information storage and retrieval. this paper describes how the application of natural language processing ( nlp ) techniques can enhance cross-language information retrieval ( clir ). using a semi-experimental technique, we took farsi queries to retrieve relevant documents in english. for translating persian queries, we us...

thesaurus is one, out of many, precious tool in information technology by which information specialists can optimize storage and retrieval of documents in scientific databases and on the web. in recent years, there has been a shift from thesaurus to ontology by downgrading thesaurus in favor of ontology. it is because thesaurus cannot meet the needs of information management because it cannot c...