Exploiting term dependence while handling negation in medical search

SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1065-1066

  Limsopatham, Nut ^a   Macdonald, Craig ^a   McCreadie, Richard ^a   Ounis, Iadh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

medical retrieval; negation; term dependence

Indexed keywords

HANDLING TECHNIQUE; MEDICAL CONDITIONS; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RETRIEVAL; NEGATION; QUERY TERMS; SEARCH TASKS; TERM DEPENDENCE; TERM REPRESENTATION;

EID: 84866623743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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