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Applying NLP techniques and biomedical resources to medical questions in QA performance

Authors:

Rafael M. Terol,

Patricio Martinez-Barco,

Manuel PalomarAuthors Info & Claims

MICAI'06: Proceedings of the 5th Mexican international conference on Artificial Intelligence

Pages 996 - 1006

https://doi.org/10.1007/11925231_95

Published: 13 November 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Nowadays, there is an increasing interest in research on QA over restricted domains. Concretely, in this paper we will show the process of question analysis in a medical QA system. This system is able to obtain answers to different natural language questions according to a question taxonomy. In this system we combine the use of NLP techniques and biomedical resources. The main NLP technique is the use of logic forms and the pattern matching technique in this question analysis performance.

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Athenikos SHan HBrooks AShin SOssowski S(2009)A framework of a logic-based question-answering system for the medical domain (LOQAS-Med)Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/1529282.1529462(847-851)Online publication date: 8-Mar-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1529282.1529462

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Applying NLP techniques and biomedical resources to medical questions in QA performance
1. Hardware
  1. Power and energy
    1. Power estimation and optimization
      1. Platform power issues
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval

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MICAI'06: Proceedings of the 5th Mexican international conference on Artificial Intelligence

November 2006

1232 pages

ISBN:3540490264

Editors:
Alexander Gelbukh
Center for Computing Research, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, México
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Carlos Alberto Reyes-Garcia
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Luis Enrique Erro No. 1, Sta. Ma. Tonanzintla, Puebla, México

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Athenikos SHan HBrooks AShin SOssowski S(2009)A framework of a logic-based question-answering system for the medical domain (LOQAS-Med)Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/1529282.1529462(847-851)Online publication date: 8-Mar-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1529282.1529462

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