Programme Type: SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
Programme Acronym: SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
Contract Type: NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE
Contract No: N/A
Start Date: 2006-01-01
End Date: 2007-12-31
Project Status: completed
Budget for TUC: N/A
Role for TUC:
Principal Investigator for TUC: Euripides G.Μ. Petrakis

Information Retrieval System for MedLine and Medical Information. MedSearch is a complete retrieval system for Medline, the premier bibliographic database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). MedSearch implements the Semantic Similarity based Retrieval Model (SSRM), a novel information retrieval method for discovering similarities between documents containing semantically similar but not necessarily lexically similar terms.

Funding Agency: BIOPATTERN NoE, Fp6.

Participants: Technical University of Crete (TUC), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Universita Di Pisa (UNIPI).

Principal Investigator for TUC: Euripides G.M. Petrakis

• Chliaoutakis A., Varelas G., Petrakis E., Milios E.: MedSearch: A Retrieval System for Medical Information Based on Semantic Similarity, 10th ECDL European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'2006), September, 17-22, 2006. Alicante, Spain.
  

  Publication Type: Conference Publications

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• Chliaoutakis A., Varelas G., Voutsakis E., Petrakis E., Milios E.: Information Retrieval by Semantic Similarity, Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), Special Issue of Multimedia Semantics, Vol. 3, No. 3, July/September, 2006, pp. 55-73, Copyright 2006, Idea Group Inc. www.idea-group.com. Posted by permission of the publisher.
  

  Publication Type: Journal Publications

  [abstract] [file]

• Chliaoutakis A., Zervanou K., Petrakis E., Milios E.: Automatic Document Indexing in Large Medical Collections, ACM International Workshop on Health Information and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2006), November 11, 2006, Arlington, VA, USA.
  

  Publication Type: Workshop Proceedings

  [abstract] [file]