Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1991:808-12.

Evaluation of SAPHIRE: an automated approach to indexing and retrieving medical literature.

Hersh W, Hickam DH, Haynes RB, McKibbon KA.

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An analysis of SAPHIRE, an experimental information retrieval system featuring automated indexing and natural language retrieval, was performed on MEDLINE references using data previously generated for a MEDLINE evaluation. Compared with searches performed by novice and expert physicians using MEDLINE, SAPHIRE achieved comparable recall and precision. While its combined recall and precision performance did not equal the level of librarians, SAPHIRE did achieve a significantly higher level of absolute recall. SAPHIRE has other potential advantages over existing MEDLINE systems. Its natural language interface does not require knowledge of MeSH, and it provides relevance ranking of retrieved references.

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