This paper presents the results of task 3 of the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014. This evaluation lab focuses on improving access to medical information on the web. The task objective was to investigate the e_ect of using additional information such as a related discharge summary and external resources such as medical ontologies on the e_ectiveness of information retrieval systems, in a monolingual (Task 3a) and in a multilingual (Task 3b) context. The participants were allowed to submit up to seven runs for each language (English, Czech, French, German), one mandatory run using no additional information or external resources, and three each using or not using discharge summaries.
Details
Title
Task 3 : User-centred health information retrieval : ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014
Author(s)
Müller, Henning (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais-Wallis)) Goeuriot, Lorraine (Dublin City University, Ireland) Kelly, Liadh (Dublin City University, Ireland) Li, Wei (Dublin City University, Ireland) Palotti, João (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Pecina, Pavel (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Zuccon, Guido (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Hanbury, Allan (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Jones, Gareth (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Date
2014-09
Published in
Workshop proceedings of the 5th International Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Initiative 2014 : Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction
Volume
1180
Publisher
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 15-18 September 2014
Pagination
19 p.
Presented at
CLEF eHealth is part of 5th International Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Initiative 2014 : Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 15/09/2014 / 18/09/2014