DEMIR at TREC-medical 2011: Power of term phrases in medical text retrieval

ÖZTÜRKMENOĞLU O., ALPKOÇAK A.

20th Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2011, Gaithersburg, MD, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 15 - 18 Kasım 2011 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
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  • Basıldığı Şehir: Gaithersburg, MD
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Information retrieval, Medical text retrieval, Text retrieval
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper present the details of participation of DEMIR (Dokuz Eylul University Multimedia Information Retrieval) research team to TREC 2011 Medical Records track. In this study, our aim is to index and retrieve medical terms and term phrases in medical text archives. We searched medical terms and term phrases with using UMLS which is a metathesaurus about medical. We evaluated the effects of terms and term phrases on retrieval system in TREC 2011 Medical Records track, considering terms and term phrases as medical entities. We improved results by examination of different weighting schemes for retrieved data.