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Peer reviewedCole, Charles – Information Processing & Management, 1998
Suggests that the principles underlying the procedure used by doctors to diagnose a patient's disease are useful in the design of intelligent information-retrieval systems because the task of the doctor is conceptually similar to the computer or human intermediary's task in information retrieval: to draw out the user's query/information need.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Diagnosis, Computer System Design, Information Needs
