Background Search filters or hedges play an important role in evidence-based medicine but
their development depends on the availability of a" gold standard"–a reference standard …

Background Searching for topics within large biomedical databases can be challenging,
especially when topics are complex, diffuse, emerging or lack definitional clarity …

While a large number of knowledge graphs have previously been developed by
automatically extracting and structuring knowledge from literature, there is currently no such …

The literature of the evaluation of Internet search engines is reviewed. Although there have
been many studies, there has been little consistency in the way such studies have been …

Objective: This study compared the recall and precision of MeSH-term versus text-word
searching to better understand psychosocial MeSH terms and to provide guidance on …

Advances in sequencing technology have facilitated population-scale long-read structural
variant (SV) detection. Arguably, one of the main challenges in population-scale analysis is …

Background Heart failure is a highly debilitating syndrome with a poor prognosis primarily
affecting the elderly. Clinicians wanting timely access to heart failure evidence to provide …

We offer a new method of validation for the effectiveness of MEDLINE searches used in
systematic reviews, the Inquisitio Validus Index Medicus. Validation is essential to ensure …

This study evaluates the retrieval of New Zealand information using three local New Zealand
search engines, four major global search engines and three metasearch engines. Searches …

Abstract Context and Motivation: Information retrieval (IR) trace link creation approaches
have insufficient precision and do not perform well on unstructured data which is typical in …