University of Glasgow at Medical Records Track: Experiments with Terrier

In our participation in the TREC 2011 Medical Records track, we investigate (1) novel voting-based approaches for identifying relevant patient visits from an aggregate of relevant medical records, (2) the effective handling of negated language in records and queries, and (3) the adoption of medical-domain ontologies for improving the representation of queries, all within the context of our Terrier information retrieval platform.

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