An analysis of query difficulty for information retrieval in the medical domain

SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1007-1010

  Goeuriot, Lorraine ^a   Kelly, Liadh ^a   Leveling, Johannes ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Evaluation benchmark; Medical information retrieval; Query analysis

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BIOINFORMATICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

BENCHMARKING ACTIVITY; MEDICAL CONCEPTS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; QUERY ANALYSIS; QUERY COMPLEXITY; RETRIEVAL QUALITY; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84904563493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2600428.2609496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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