Potentiality of healthcare big data: Improving search by automatic query reformulation

  • Yueyao Wang
  • , Qinmin Hu
  • , Yang Song
  • , Liang He

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Abstract

Clinical Decision Systems utilize patient profiles to search for relevant medical support. Existing work on medical search has a primary topic on query expansion, which enriches queries by adding more useful terms. However, it performs well when queries are concise. In this paper, we aim to tackle verbose queries and propose a new automatic query reformulation method, which not only considers query expansion, but also includes query reduction. This improves the searching performance by refining the query to effectively avoid irrelevant results. The method is achieved by classifying each sentence into expansion and reduction categories with a weighted score model, which depends on the occurrence of medical and negative terms. The refined queries show promising results on experiments with TREC CDS datasets. In particular, the final performance makes improvements in terms of NDCG as 8.2% compared to the prevailing query expansion method, and 22.07% compared to the baseline of original query.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017
EditorsJian-Yun Nie, Zoran Obradovic, Toyotaro Suzumura, Rumi Ghosh, Raghunath Nambiar, Chonggang Wang, Hui Zang, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Xiaohua Hu, Jeremy Kepner, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Jian Tang, Masashi Toyoda
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages807-816
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781538627143
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2017
Event5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017 - Boston, United States
Duration: 11 Dec 201714 Dec 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017
Volume2018-January

Conference

Conference5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period11/12/1714/12/17

Keywords

  • Clinical Decision Support
  • Medical Data Search
  • Query Reformulation

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