institute for computational biomedicine: Twease

[ description ]

Twease is a web-based tool to search Medline at the abstract level (available from http://twease.org). Twease indexes each word of Medline and provides features that can transparently expand your search to help find the information you are looking for.

Twease is being developed at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Since we distribute the source code under the GPL, you are welcome to reuse or extend the Twease application in any way you like.

[ documentation ]

Twease has its own tutorial and help system built into the web site. Additional materials relating to the comparative evaluation of Twease and PubMed can be found here.

queries.xml - All query terms and associated PMIDs

eval-judgments-and-results.zip - Evaluation judgments and results [Zip archive]

Evaluation.xls - Raw data for Precision/recall evaluation of Twease and PubMed [Excel format]

You may download the source code, but will need a full fledged software development environment (JDK1.5+, Ant 1.6+). By downloading this distribution, you agree to the terms of the Gnu General Public License.

Twease is developed using the following libraries / tools:
MG4J

Textractor

Tapestry

Prototype.js

The latest development snapshot of the source code archived on August 2nd, 2006 is available for download. This version requires JDK 1.5+.

The Twease source code v20060802164801 (GPL)

The modified MG4J source and library v20060602, based on 1.0.3.1 (LGPL)

A precompiled web application archive (war) archived on August 2nd, 2006 is also available for download. This version requires Tomcat version 5.5.x or equivalent. The configuration assumes that the document index built with textractor exists at "C:\textractor\dataset-a-index".

Twease web application archive (war) v20060802164801

If you find this software useful, please let us know in a quick email.

[ availability ]

Twease is web accessible: [ access Twease ]

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