Exploring effective information retrieval technique for the medical web documents: SNUMedinfo at CLEFeHealth2014 Task 3
Sungbin Choi, Jinwook Choi · 2014
Abstract. This paper describes the participation of the SNUMedinfo team at the CLEFeHealth2014 task 3. We submitted 7 runs to Task3a (monolingual infor-mation retrieval): 1 baseline run using query likelihood model in Indri search engine; 3 runs applying UMLS based lexical query expansion utilizing dis-charge summary as an expansion term filter; 3 runs applying learning to rank technique utilizing various document features. We submitted 4 runs to Task3b (multilingual information retrieval): 1 baseline run using Google Translate for the English translation; 3 runs applying learning to rank technique on the trans-lated query.