Title
Let terms choose their own kernels: An intelligent approach to kernel selection for healthcare search.
Abstract
Proximity-based information retrieval models usually pre-define a kernel function on all documents. However, terms, especially professional terms used in healthcare, can exert various levels of influence in different positions. In this paper, we propose an intelligent approach with an elite kernel function for healthcare search. The unique contribution is that the proposed approach assigns a term with the most suitable kernel function at a position, instead of pre-defining a single kernel, such as the Gaussian kernel, over all documents. Furthermore, our approach requires no prior data, external resources, or advance training steps. We first define the elite kernel and present its existence in a kernel space. Then, we optimize the kernel by maximizing the probability using the Poisson process. Finally, we use a kernel-based weighting function to evaluate the effectiveness of the intelligent approach on three standard CLEF healthcare domain data sets and two non-healthcare domain data sets. Our approach shows great advantages in terms of both healthcare domain and non-healthcare domain data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.ins.2019.02.010
Information Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
Search,Healthcare,Kernel function
Kernel (linear algebra),Weighting,Data set,Artificial intelligence,Poisson process,Gaussian function,Clef,Mathematics,Machine learning,Kernel (statistics)
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
485
0020-0255
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
42
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yang Song16422.68
Qinmin Vivian Hu2206.06
Liang He33616.68