Exploiting medical hierarchies for concept-based information retrieval
Guido Zuccon, Bevan Koopman, Anthony N Nguyen, Deanne Vickers, Luke Butt · 2012
Search technologies are critical to enable clinical staff to rapidly and effectively access patient information contained in free-text medical records. Medical search is challenging as terms in the query are often general but those in relevant documents are very specific, leading to granularity mismatch.