Searching for information in a hypertext medical handbook

1 July 1988

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 31 (7), 880-886
https://doi.org/10.1145/48511.48518

Abstract

Medicine is an ideal domain for hypertext applications and research. Implementing a popular medical handbook in hypertext underscores the need to study hypertext in the context of full-text document retrieval, machine learning, and user interface issues.

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