Abstract
SAPHIRE (Semantic and Probabilistic Heuristic Information Retrieval Environment) is an experimental computer program designed to test new techniques in automated information retrieval in the biomedical domain. A main feature of the program is a concept-finding algorithm that processes free text to find canonical concepts. The algorithm is designed to handle a wide variety of synonyms and convert them to canonical form. This allows natural language to be used for query input and also serves as the basis for a new approach to automatic indexing based on a combination of probabilistic and linguistic methods.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 410-425 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Computers and Biomedical Research |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1990 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)