Assisting Consumer Health Information Retrieval with Query Recommendations
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Research Paper: Assisting Consumer Health Information Retrieval with Query Recommendations
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1527-974X,1067-5027
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.m1820