Reexamining the cluster hypothesis: scatter/gather on retrieval results
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Optimizing search by showing results in context
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Evaluation of hierarchical clustering algorithms for document datasets
Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Information and knowledge management
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Evaluation of resources for question answering evaluation
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An empirical study of information synthesis tasks
ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Using question series to evaluate question answering system effectiveness
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Answering Clinical Questions with Knowledge-Based and Statistical Techniques
Computational Linguistics
Answering Clinical Questions with Knowledge-Based and Statistical Techniques
Computational Linguistics
Extracting semantics in a clinical scenario
ACSW '07 Proceedings of the fifth Australasian symposium on ACSW frontiers - Volume 68
A predictive framework for retrieving the best answer
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Navigating information spaces: A case study of related article search in PubMed
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Toward automatic facet analysis and need negotiation: Lessons from mediated search
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Towards retrieving relevant information for answering clinical comparison questions
BioNLP '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Adapting naturally occurring test suites for evaluation of clinical question answering
SETQA-NLP '08 Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing
Biomedical question answering: A survey
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Clinical information retrieval using document and PICO structure
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
AskHERMES: An online question answering system for complex clinical questions
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Text summarisation in progress: a literature review
Artificial Intelligence Review
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Degree centrality for semantic abstraction summarization of therapeutic studies
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Inferring appropriate eligibility criteria in clinical trial protocols without labeled data
Proceedings of the ACM sixth international workshop on Data and text mining in biomedical informatics
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This paper presents a hybrid approach to question answering in the clinical domain that combines techniques from summarization and information retrieval. We tackle a frequently-occurring class of questions that takes the form "What is the best drug treatment for X?" Starting from an initial set of MEDLINE citations, our system first identifies the drugs under study. Abstracts are then clustered using semantic classes from the UMLS ontology. Finally, a short extractive summary is generated for each abstract to populate the clusters. Two evaluations---a manual one focused on short answers and an automatic one focused on the supporting abstract---demonstrate that our system compares favorably to PubMed, the search system most widely used by physicians today.