An adaptive evidence weighting method for medical record search

SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1025-1028

  Zhu, Dongqing ^a   Carterette, Ben ^a  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort identification; EMR; Information retrieval; Language models; Medical record search

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL STUDY; EMR; LANGUAGE MODEL; MEDICAL RECORD; RETRIEVAL MODELS; SEARCH SYSTEM; WEIGHTING METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84883098858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2484028.2484175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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