Context-based health information retrieval

Carla Teixeira Lopes
2013 SIGIR Forum  
Health Information Retrieval (HIR) applies the concepts and techniques of Information Retrieval (IR) to the actors, behaviors and information of the healthcare domain. Contextual Information Retrieval (CIR) is a subarea of IR that seeks to incorporate contextual features in the retrieval process towards its improvement. These areas have been gaining interest from the research community but it's unusual to find research crossing the two domains. This research will study the context of HIR,
more » ... fy elements of context potentially significant to HIR and propose novel ways to improve HIR performance through the exploration of contextual features. This paper presents the motivation behind this work, a description of the proposed research, a literature review relevant to the research problem and the methodology to fulfill it.
doi:10.1145/2568388.2568414 fatcat:qaevhhfrfffitm2dpagfln2wii