Ranking in information retrieval has been traditionally approached as a pursuit of relevant
information, under the assumption that the users' information needs are unambiguously …

Utilizing external collections to improve retrieval performance is challenging research
because various test collections are created for different purposes. Improving medical …

Introduction: Electronic medical records are increasingly common in medical practice. The
secondary use of medical records has become increasingly important. It relies on the ability …

The increasing amount of information that is annotated against standardised semantic
resources offers opportunities to incorporate sophisticated levels of reasoning, or inference …

Recent advances in automatic speech recognition lead toward enabling a voice
conversation between a human user and an intelligent virtual assistant. This provides a …

This thesis focuses on enhancing the search of electronic medical records (EMRs), with the
aim of identifying patients with medical histories relevant to the medical conditions stated in …

Frequency is one of the major factors for training quality word embeddings. Several studies
have recently discussed the stability of word embeddings in general domain and suggested …

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) uses the best-available evidence in the process of patient
care. Systematic reviews (SRs) are an essential part in the practice of EBM, providing the …

In biomedical area, medical concepts linked to external knowledge bases (eg, UMLS) are
frequently used for accurate and effective representations. There are many studies to …

The medical related area has drawn increasingly attention from both physicians and patients
in nowadays. In order to help the users navigate in the digit ocean, Information Retrieval (IR) …