%0 Journal Article %1 Terol:2007 %A Terol, Rafael M %A Martínez-Barco, Patricio %A Palomar, Manuel %D 2007 %J Computers in Biology and Medicine %K biomedical question\_answering %N 10 %P 1511--1521 %R 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2007.01.013 %T A knowledge based method for the medical question answering problem %V 37 %X In this paper, a restricted domain question answering (QA) system is described. The design architecture of this QA system and the features that allow the adaptation of the QA system to the medical domain are also presented. The advantages of this QA system include the simple process of defining the question taxonomy answered by the system as well as the possibility of locally or remotely managed document collections. The main computing methods of the QA system are based on the application of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to infer the logic forms and on the treatment of the logic forms. The knowledge of the system is acquired through the use of two different resources: Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) to handle the medical terminology and WordNet to manage the open-domain terminology.

@article{Terol:2007, abstract = {In this paper, a restricted domain question answering (QA) system is described. The design architecture of this QA system and the features that allow the adaptation of the QA system to the medical domain are also presented. The advantages of this QA system include the simple process of defining the question taxonomy answered by the system as well as the possibility of locally or remotely managed document collections. The main computing methods of the QA system are based on the application of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to infer the logic forms and on the treatment of the logic forms. The knowledge of the system is acquired through the use of two different resources: Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) to handle the medical terminology and WordNet to manage the open-domain terminology.}, added-at = {2010-07-28T10:26:20.000+0200}, author = {Terol, Rafael M and Mart{\'i}nez-Barco, Patricio and Palomar, Manuel}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/202f2265b032de2ad5711374440d65ef3/diego_ma}, doi = {10.1016/j.compbiomed.2007.01.013}, interhash = {dd5979d3f1cf80dd46d4cc723d16b9b7}, intrahash = {02f2265b032de2ad5711374440d65ef3}, journal = {Computers in Biology and Medicine}, keywords = {biomedical question\_answering}, library = {Web}, number = 10, pages = {1511--1521}, review = {This is a description of a {QA} system that uses logical forms on the medical domain. The process to build the logical forms appears similar to Moldovan's and Molla's, and the logical forms look similar. The authors inaccurately say that their difference is that the authors use dependency structures as the source for the logical forms, in contrast with Moldovan and Molla. This is wrong. Also they use a method for the automatic production of logical patterns but I didn't understand it. There is an evaluation of the question classification, but surprisingly not of the question-answering ability of the system.}, timestamp = {2011-06-23T09:41:50.000+0200}, title = {A knowledge based method for the medical question answering problem}, volume = 37, year = 2007 }