We present MedstractPlus, a resource for mining relations from the Medline bibliographic database. It was built on the remains of Medstract, a previously created resource that included a bio-relation server and an acronym database. MedstractPlus uses simple and scalable natural language processing modules to structure text and is designed with reusability and extendibility in mind.

We have implemented a system for assisting experts in selecting MEDLINE records for database construction purposes. This system has two specific features: The first is a learning mechanism which extracts characteristics in the abstracts of MEDLINE records of interest as patterns. These patterns reflect selection decisions by experts and are used for screening the records. The second is a keywor...

BACKGROUND Bibliographic databases are the primary resource for identifying systematic reviews of health care interventions. Reliable retrieval of systematic reviews depends on the scope of indexing used by database providers. Therefore, searching one database may be insufficient, but it is unclear how many need to be searched. We sought to evaluate the performance of seven major bibliographic ...

java is an object-oriented program that has abundant open-source libraries for application development and 3d model rendering. spatial database is the database that can efficiently store and manage geographic information data though various spatial data management techniques. this paper explores the rationale of coupling java with spatial database to develop an effective platform for future bui...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficiency of the major bibliographic databases by assessing the percentage of references among the total literature available that can be retrieved from each database. We also evaluated the best database combinations to carry out an exhaustive search. METHODS BIOSIS, EMBASE, MEDLINE, NIOSH-TIC, and TOXLINE were searched on two topics: allergy to latex and asbestos ...

BACKGROUND Receiving extraneous articles in response to a query submitted to MEDLINE/PubMed is common. When submitting a multi-word query (which is the majority of queries submitted), the presence of all query words within each article may be a necessary condition for retrieving relevant articles, but not sufficient. Ideally a relationship between the query words in the article is also required...