It is intended for librarians performing subject indexing in the health area, researchers, students, and healthcare professionals.
No. DeCS Finder IA was developed to support the discovery of descriptors in texts from the Health Sciences field. Its suggestions are based on DeCS, a thesaurus designed for the indexing and retrieval of documents in specialized health bibliographic databases. Although DeCS contains terms from other fields of knowledge, these terms are complementary and are linked to health-related topics, problems, and contexts.
Yes. The use of DeCS Finder IA is free. You can use it as many times as you wish without any charge.
Currently, it supports texts in Portuguese, Spanish, English and French.
No, DeCS Finder IA operates directly from your browser, requiring no installation.
DeCS Finder IA uses lexical algorithms that detect matching words, combined with semantic algorithms that analyze the context of the text. Results are filtered through the official list of DeCS descriptors and guided by the LILACS methodology.
No. DeCS Finder IA does not create new descriptors or present terms outside DeCS. Suggestions are restricted to descriptors that already exist in the thesaurus. This reduces the risk of inconsistent responses and allows the results to be reviewed based on authorized terms.
No. The inserted text is used only to perform the requested analysis and generate descriptor suggestions at that moment. It is not is not stored in any environment, automatically incorporated into the training corpus or used to update the model.
The beginner interface provides a step-by-step guide for defining text analysis criteria, while the advanced interface allows direct manual adjustments by more experienced users.
Yes, it is compatible with tablets and smartphones.
Yes, results can be exported in TXT format.
Yes. DeCS Finder IA allows files to be included for analysis in TXT and PDF formats. The file content is processed to generate DeCS descriptor suggestions, following the same criteria applied to text inserted directly into the analysis field.
Yes. The limit is 200,000 characters, approximately equivalent to 50 pages with 40 lines each.
Yes. DeCS Finder IA is integrated with the FI-Admin system in the Descriptor suggestion option, supporting the discovery of DeCS descriptors in the workflow for indexing bibliographic records. The suggestions must be reviewed through human validation, checking the relevance of each descriptor in the analyzed text and its suitability to the subject addressed in the document.
The DeCS/MeSH thesaurus is updated annually.
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