TeSSI® (Terminology Supported Semantic Indexing) is a state-of-the-art tool that improves upon the existing search and retrieval tools by extracting the meaning out of medical free text and placing the resulting medical ‘concepts’ in the document ind
Lexical ambiguity is a fundamental problem in Information Retrieval (IR), especially in the medical domain. Many systems use a subset of the words contained in the document to represent the content, but they are faced with the problem of ambiguity.