AUTOMATED QUESTION-ANSWERING TECHNIQUES AND THE MEDICAL DOMAIN

Andrea Andrenucci

2008

Abstract

The question-answering (QA) paradigm, i.e. the process of retrieving precise answers to natural language (NL) questions, was introduced in late 1960-ies and early 1970-ies within the framework of Artificial Intelligence. The advent of WWW and the need to provide advanced, user-friendly search tools has extended the QA paradigm to a larger audience of people and a larger number of fields, including medicine. This paper reviews and compares three main question-answering approaches based on Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and question templates, eliciting their differences and the context of application that best suits each of them within the medical domain.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Andrenucci A. (2008). AUTOMATED QUESTION-ANSWERING TECHNIQUES AND THE MEDICAL DOMAIN . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 2: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-16-6, pages 207-212. DOI: 10.5220/0001044202070212

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf08,
author={Andrea Andrenucci},
title={AUTOMATED QUESTION-ANSWERING TECHNIQUES AND THE MEDICAL DOMAIN},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 2: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={207-212},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001044202070212},
isbn={978-989-8111-16-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 2: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2008)
TI - AUTOMATED QUESTION-ANSWERING TECHNIQUES AND THE MEDICAL DOMAIN
SN - 978-989-8111-16-6
AU - Andrenucci A.
PY - 2008
SP - 207
EP - 212
DO - 10.5220/0001044202070212