Title
Representing Clinical Documents To Support Automatic Retrieval Of Evidence From The Cochrane Library
Abstract
The overall aim of our research is to develop a clinical information retrieval system that retrieves systematic reviews and underlying clinical studies from the Cochrane Library to support physician decision making. We believe that in order to accomplish this goal we need to develop a mechanism for effectively representing documents that will be retrieved by the application. Therefore, as a first step in developing the retrieval application we have developed a methodology that semiautomatically generates high quality indices and applies them as descriptors to documents from The Cochrane Library. In this paper we present a description and implementation of the automatic indexing methodology and an evaluation that demonstrates that enhanced document representation results in the retrieval of relevant documents for clinical queries. We argue that the evaluation of information retrieval applications should also include an evaluation of the quality of the representation of documents that may be retrieved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/BIBMW.2010.5703845
2010 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICINE WORKSHOPS (BIBMW)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
pediatrics,information retrieval system,information retrieval,indexing,systematic review,bioinformatics,systematics
Conference
2163-6966
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dympna O'Sullivan14511.29
Wojtek Michalowski226641.48
Martin Michalowski315515.03
Szymon Wilk446140.94
Ken Farion510612.61