title: Question processing and clustering in INDOC: a biomedical question answering system.
abstract: The exponential growth in the volume of publications in the biomedical domain has made it impossible for an individual to keep pace with the advances. Even though evidence-based medicine has gained wide acceptance, the physicians are unable to access the relevant information in the required time, leaving most of the questions unanswered. This accentuates the need for fast and accurate biomedical question answering systems. In this paper we introduce INDOC--a biomedical question answering system based on novel ideas of indexing and extracting the answer to the questions posed. INDOC displays the results in clusters to help the user arrive the most relevant set of documents quickly. Evaluation was done against the standard OHSUMED test collection. Our system achieves high accuracy and minimizes user effort.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, Roorkee, India.
authors.forename: Parikshit
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sondhi
authors.forename: Purushottam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Raj
authors.forename: V Vinod
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Ankush
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mittal