For User Manual A guide to all aspects of Sociological Abstracts including content, searching, and viewing Sociological Abstracts offers access to the international literature. Indico User Guide, Release 1.9.5.

Searching MEDLINE was searched from 1966 to May 1998 for articles published in English; the search terms were reported. Excerpta Medica and Abstracts from the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (American Society for Microbiology, 1993-1997) were also searched. In addition, the references from all identified studies and review articles were checked, and experts in t...

We have been conducting a research and development aiming at practical machine translation systems. Our first product, HICATS/JE (Hitachi Computer Aided Translation System / Japanese to English), has been put on the market since May, 1986. The system can be used on HITAC M series computers / VOS3 operating system. It is intended to be utilized in translating documents primarily in scientific an...

The paper describes evaluation resources for concept-based, cross-lingual information retrieval in the medical domain. All resources were constructed in the context of the MuchMore project and are freely available through the project website. Available resources include: a bilingual, parallel document collection of German and English medical scientific abstracts, a set of queries and correspond...

We sought to obtain an overvie w of published literature in relation to pleural effusions and pleural biopsies, that specifically focused on practices in one or more of the Middle Eastern countries defined above. Publications were in English from 1955-2011 and included original research, reviews, book chapters, editorials, abstracts and case reports. PLEURAL EFFUSION AND ROLE OF CLOSED PLEURAL ...

This paper applies an existing query translation method to cross-language patent retrieval. In our method, multiple dictionaries are used to derive all possible translations for an input query, and collocational statistics are used to resolve translation ambiguity. We used Japanese/English parallel patent abstracts to perform comparative experiments, where our method outperformed a simple dicti...

The paper describes a cross-lingual document retrieval system in the medical domain that employs a controlled vocabulary (UMLS) in constructing an XMLbased intermediary representation into which queries as well as documents are mapped. The system assists in the retrieval of English and German medical scientific abstracts relevant to a German query document (electronic patient record). The modul...