The role of knowledge in conceptual retrieval: A study in the domain of clinical medicine

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 99-106

  Lin, Jimmy ^a,b   Demner Fushman, Dina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Question answering; Reranking; Semantic models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MEDICINE; SEMANTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE (EBM); QUESTION ANSWERING; RERANKING; SEMANTIC MODELS; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CONCEPTUAL RETRIEVAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE (EBM); INFORMATION SEEKING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICINE;

EID: 33750288971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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