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What is Information Retrieval

Chapter 25

Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services

Information Retrieval is understood as a fully automatic process that responds to a user query by examining a collection of documents and returning a sorted document list that should be relevant to the user requirements as expressed in the query.

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Searching Health Information in Question-Answering Systems

María-Dolores Olvera-Lobo (CSIC, Spain & Universidad de Granada, Spain) and Juncal Gutiérrez-Artacho (Universidad de Granada, Spain & Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain)

Source Title: Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch025

Abstract

Question-Answering Systems (QA Systems) can be viewed as a new alternative to the more familiar Information Retrieval Systems. These systems try to offer detailed, understandable answers to factual questions, in order to retrieve a collection of documents related to a particular search (Jackson & Schilder, 2005). The authors carry out a study to evaluate the quality and efficiency of open- and restricted-domain QA systems as sources for physicians and users in general through one monolingual evaluation and another multilingual. Their objective led them to use definition-type questions in order to evaluate QA systems and determine if they are useful to retrieve medical information. In addition, they analyze and evaluate the results obtained, and identify the source or sources used by the systems and their procedure (Olvera-Lobo & Gutiérrez-Artacho, 2010, 2011).