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LHNCBC-2005-004
askMEDLINE: A Free-Text, Natural Language Query Tool for MEDLINE/PubMed
Fontelo P, Liu F, Ackerman MJ
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2005. 5;5:1-14.
Plain language search tools for MEDLINE/PubMed are few. We wanted to develop a search tool that would allow anyone using a free-text, natural language query and without knowing specialized vocabularies that an expert searcher might use, to find relevant citations in MEDLINE/PubMed. This tool would translate a question into an efficient search.
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