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The PRIME information retrieval system applied on a medical corpus

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Multimedia Information Analysis and Retrieval (MINAR 1998)

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PRIME is a precision oriented information retrieval system, managing multimedia structured documents. An information retrieval system provides access to documents based on their semantic content. The precision of such a system is measured as its capacity to give not necessary all, but only good answers. An information retrieval system is precision oriented when the information need of the users requires precise answers from the system; this leads the users to give also precise queries. Such systems are based on complex and controled representation languages, allowing a deep semantic understanding of the documents and the queries. The precision of an information retrieval system is quantified when instanciating it onto an application and a category of users. This paper describes the PRIME system, as we applied it on a medical corpus of documents for specialist physicians. The structured corpus contains medical texts, radiologic images and medical records. The software architecture of PRIME is built on the O2 system; the data structures dealing with the retrieval are conceptual graphs; the interfaces are developed in X-Motif and HTML using forms.

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  1. CLIPS IMAG, BP 53, F-38041, Grenoble Cedex, France

    C. Berrut, P. Mulhem & F. Fourel

  2. The Robert Gordon University, AB25 1HG, Aberdeen, UK

    M. Mechkour

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Berrut, C., Mulhem, P., Fourel, F., Mechkour, M. (1998). The PRIME information retrieval system applied on a medical corpus. In: Ip, H.H.S., Smeulders, A.W.M. (eds) Multimedia Information Analysis and Retrieval. MINAR 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1464. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0016501

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