MEANS: A medical question-answering system combining NLP techniques and semantic Web technologies
MEANS: A medical question-answering system combining NLP techniques and semantic Web technologies
Asma Ben Abacha,Pierre Zweigenbaum
2015 · DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2015.04.006
Information Processing & Management · 234 Citations
TLDR
This paper proposes a semantic approach to QA based on Natural Language Processing techniques, which allow a deep analysis of medical questions and documents and semantic Web technologies at both representation and interrogation levels, and proposes a method for “Answer Search” based on semantic search and query relaxation.