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Automatic search of information about cancer in the Web

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IV Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering 2007, Bioengineering Solutions for Latin America Health

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Due to the dramatic increase on available information in the WEB, users are in the need of new tools to find, filtrate and analyze the huge amount of data returned by search engines. In this paper we present a new tool for WEB searching which starts from a small set of examples labeled by the user. From them a process of selection and weighting of words to form new queries ensures the recovery of more relevant documents. The results obtained on a search for cancer related documents illustrate the effectiveness of the method.

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  1. FIMEE, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico

    Rafael Guzmán-Cabrera, M. A. Hernández-Figueroa & José Ruiz-Pinales

  2. DSIC, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

    Rafael Guzmán-Cabrera

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  1. Departamento de Mecánica, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Valle Sartenejas, Caracas, 1080A, Venezuela

    Carmen Müller-Karger

  2. Departamento de Electrónica, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Valle Sartenejas, Caracas, 1080A, Venezuela

    Sara Wong

  3. Departamento de Computación y Tecnología de la Información, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Valle Sartenejas, Caracas, 1080A, Venezuela

    Alexandra La Cruz

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Guzmán-Cabrera, R., Hernández-Figueroa, M.A., Ruiz-Pinales, J. (2007). Automatic search of information about cancer in the Web. In: Müller-Karger, C., Wong, S., La Cruz, A. (eds) IV Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering 2007, Bioengineering Solutions for Latin America Health. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74471-9_268

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