title: MeSH Speller + askMEDLINE: auto-completes MeSH terms then searches MEDLINE/PubMed via free-text, natural language queries.
abstract: Medical terminology is challenging even for healthcare personnel. Spelling errors can make searching MEDLINE/PubMed ineffective. We developed a utility that provides MeSH term and Specialist Lexicon Vocabulary suggestions as it is typed on a search page. The correctly spelled term can be incorporated into a free-text, natural language search or used as a clinical queries search.
authors.affiliation: Office of High Performance Computing and Communications, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fontelo
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ackerman
mesh_terms: D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D039781:PubMed