Clinical information retrieval (IR) plays a vital role in modern healthcare by facilitating
efficient access and analysis of medical literature for clinicians and researchers. This …

Managing the data for Information Retrieval (IR) experiments can be challenging. Dataset
documentation is scattered across the Internet and once one obtains a copy of the data …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the seventh annual edition of the CLEF eHealth
evaluation lab. CLEF eHealth 2019 continues our evaluation resource building efforts …

When conducting systematic reviews, medical researchers heavily deliberate over the final
query to pose to the information retrieval system. Given the possible query variations that …

In this paper we provide an overview of the fifth edition of the CLEF eHealth evaluation lab.
CLEF eHealth 2017 continues our evaluation resource building efforts around the easing …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the sixth annual edition of the CLEF eHealth
evaluation lab. CLEF eHealth 2018 continues our evaluation resource building efforts …

This paper introduces TrecTools, a Python library for assisting Information Retrieval (IR)
practitioners with TREC-like campaigns. IR practitioners tasked with activities like building …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the eight annual edition of the Conference and Labs
of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) eHealth evaluation lab. The Conference and Labs of the …

This paper details the collection, systems and evaluation methods used in the CLEF 2018
eHealth Evaluation Lab, Consumer Health Search (CHS) task (Task 3). This task …

For many internet users, searching for health advice online is the first step in seeking
treatment. We present a Learning to Rank system that uses a novel set of syntactic and …