• DocumentCode
    2866317
  • Title

    Automatic Clinical Question Answering Based on UMLS Relations

  • Author

    Weiming, Wang ; Hu, Dawei ; Feng, Min ; Wenyin, Liu

  • Author_Institution
    Wuhan Univ., Wuhan
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    29-31 Oct. 2007
  • Firstpage
    495
  • Lastpage
    498
  • Abstract
    We propose an approach to automatic clinical question answering based on UMLS relations. Rules are defined to identify the medical concepts and their relations in the questions and documents with the help of Metamap transfer and SemRep. The phrase-level answers are generated through matching concepts and relations between question and documents. Experiment shows that our approach obtains high precision and recall.
  • Keywords
    information retrieval; knowledge engineering; medical information systems; Metamap transfer; SemRep; UMLS relations; automatic clinical question answering; concept matching; phrase-level answers; Bridges; Computer science; Data mining; Grid computing; Information analysis; Medical treatment; Natural language processing; Text analysis; Unified modeling language;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, Third International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shan Xi
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-3007-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3007-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SKG.2007.126
  • Filename
    4438603