Augmenting Medical Queries with UMLS Concepts via MetaMap
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This report is an overview of the methods used by the Democritus University of Thrace team (DUTH) at the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Track of the 25th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). We investigated the concept of atoms from the United Medical Language System (UMLS) as a method to augment medical queries. We ultimately found that massively augmenting queries with too many words leads to a decreased overall performance, whereas adding a few specific words works reasonably well boosting the baseline effectiveness.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016