Answering Clinical Questions with Knowledge-Based and Statistical Techniques

• Published in: Computational linguistics - Association for Computational Linguistics Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 63 - 103
• Main Authors: Demner-Fushman, Dina, Lin, Jimmy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.03.2007; MIT Press Journals, The; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Evidence-based medicine; Information Retrieval; Linguistics; Medical Language; Natural Language Generation; Natural Language Processing; Physicians; Question Answer Sequences; Questions; Special Section on Restricted-Domain Question Answering; Text Analysis

The combination of recent developments in question-answering research and the availability of unparalleled resources developed specifically for automatic semantic processing of text in the medical domain provides a unique opportunity to explore complex question answering in the domain of clinical me...