Inferring Conceptual Relationships When Ranking Patients
Nut Limsopatham,
Craig Macdonald,
Iadh Ounis
Abstract:Searching patients based on the relevance of their medical records is challenging because of the inherent implicit knowledge within the patients' medical records and queries. Such knowledge is known to the medical practitioners but may be hidden from a search system. For example, when searching for the patients with a heart disease, medical practitioners commonly know that patients who are taking the amiodarone medicine are relevant, since this drug is used to combat heart disease. In this article, we argue th… Show more
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