Social bookmark services like del.icio.us enable easy annotation for users to organize their resources. Collaborative tagging provides useful index for information retrieval. However, lack of sufficient tags for the developing documents, in particular for new arrivals, hides important documents from being retrieved at the earlier stages. This paper proposes a spreading activation approach to pr...

With the advance of World Wide Web standards, XML documents become popular in e-business applications for information exchange. Electronic catalogs and transaction records are now formatted in XML. XML documents are semi-structured documents with XML schemas marking up the semantics. XML separates presentation from semantics so that presentation of information on different devices can be proces...

This paper describes the participation of UCD IIRG in the TREC 2012 Medical Records track, which fosters research in the retrieval of electronic health records using free text fields. Our contributions to this track investigate several problem areas in the retrieval of medical documents. Multiple knowledge sources are investigated to alleviate the issue of vocabulary mismatch. Medical records a...

introduction: to promote the processes of providing medical services, patient's rights and establishing uniformity in treatment policy, the evaluation quality indexes were communicated to all general hospitals in 2002. this study evaluates the implementation of managed care guideline before their communication as evaluation quality indexes of hospitals and their relationship with communication ...

In this paper, we describe NKRL (Narrative Knowledge Representation Language), a conceptual modeling formalism for taking into account the semantic characteristics of this important component of eChronicle information represented by the ‘narrative’ documents. In these documents, the main part of the information consists in the description of the ‘events’ that relate the real or intended behavio...

Typographical data entry errors and incomplete documents, produce imperfect records in real world databases. These errors generate distinct records which belong to the same entity. The aim of Approximate Record Matching is to find multiple records which belong to an entity. In this paper, an algorithm for Approximate Record Matching is proposed that can be adapted automatically with input error...

This paper discusses the development of an information extraction system for maternal health records. Current investigated maternal health records that exist in hospitals are written in a long and detailed paragraphs in text documents. Information extraction processes unstructured, natural language text, such as maternal health records, to extract useful information from the text. MaMIE (Matern...

Today, most tools for web-based information systems focus on the creation and delivery of content and, unfortunately, not very much on management aspects. Consequently, the creation of html-documents and serving documents to users worldwide have evolved into simple routines whereas managing a huge number of documents and document links is a nontrivial task. This paper will introduce databases a...

Introduction Librarians collect and bibliographers list documents in whatever media and genres (books, journals, data sets, movies, etc.) are expected to be most useful for the communities and the purposes to be served. Once collected, documents need to be made accessible in an organized way. In part this is a matter of scale. A collection of one or very few documents can simply be placed in a ...

background and purpose: medical records of patients have an undeniable role on education, research and evaluation of health care delivery, and also could be used as reliable documents of past in cases of patients’ legal complains. this study was done to evaluate medical data recording at teaching hospital of birjand university of medical sciences in 2004. methods: in this descriptive-analytic s...