A lab protocol, also known as a standard operating procedure, is a list of instructions to perform an experiment. It is a plan used to duplicate favorable results from a previous test. In a research laboratory, many protocols are needed for safety, to operate analytical equipment and to make...
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that identifies a synonym with N-gram agreement for a query phrase. During operation, the system receives a candidate synonym for the query phrase. Then, for each term in the query phrase, the system determines whether the term is a ...