Exploiting medical hierarchies for concept-based information retrieval

Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ADCS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 111-114

  Zuccon, Guido ^a   Koopman, Bevan ^a,b   Nguyen, Anthony ^a   Vickers, Deanne ^a   Butt, Luke ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Medical information retrieval; SNOMED CT; Subsumption

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL STAFF; CONCEPT-BASED; FORMAL MODEL; MEDICAL CONCEPTS; MEDICAL DOMAINS; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; QUERY CONCEPTS; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; SEARCH TECHNOLOGY; SNOMED CT; SUBSUMPTION; SYMBOLIC REASONING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84871635581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2407085.2407100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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