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The Knowledge and Language Gap in Medical Information Seeking.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,手稿 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The Knowledge and Language Gap in Medical Information Seeking./
作者:	Soldaini, Luca.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (135 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-09B(E).
標題:	Computer science. -
電子資源:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355860948

The Knowledge and Language Gap in Medical Information Seeking.
Soldaini, Luca.

The Knowledge and Language Gap in Medical Information Seeking. - 1 online resource (135 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

Interest in medical information retrieval has risen significantly in the last few years. The Internet has become a primary source for consumers looking for health information and advice; however, their lack of expertise causes a language and knowledge gap that affects their ability to properly formulate their information needs. Health experts also struggle to efficiently search the large amount of medical literature available to them, which impacts their ability of integrating the latest research findings in clinical practice. In this dissertation, I propose several methods to overcome these challenges, thus improving search outcomes.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355860948Subjects--Topical Terms:

573171
Computer science.
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520 $a For queries issued by lay users, I introduce query clarification, a technique to identify the most appropriate expert expression that describes their information need; such expression is then used to expand the query. I experiment with three existing synonym mappings, and show that the best one leads to a 7.3% improvement over non-clarified queries. When a classifier that predicts the most appropriate mapping for each query is used, an additional 5.2% improvement over non-clarified queries is achieved. Furthermore, I introduce a set of features to capture semantic similarity between consumer queries and retrieved documents, which are then exploited by a learning to rank framework. This approach yields a 26.6% improvement over the best known results on a dataset designed to evaluate medical information retrieval for lay users.
520 $a To improve literature search for medical professionals, I propose and evaluate two query reformulation techniques that expand complex medical queries with relevant latent and explicit medical concepts. The first is an unsupervised system that combines a statistical query expansion with a medical terms filter, while the second is a supervised neural convolutional model that predicts which terms to add to medical queries. Both approaches are competitive with the state of the art, achieving up to 8% improvement in inferred nDCG. Finally, I conclude my dissertation by showing how the convolutional model can be adapted to reduce clinical notes that contain significant noise, such as medical abbreviations, incomplete sentences, and redundant information. This approach outperforms the best query reformulation system for this task by 27% in inferred nDCG.
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