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Vincent Claveau¹, Thierry Hamon², Sébastien Le Maguer¹

¹IRISA - CNRS, Rennes, France.

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|May 21, 2015

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Patients struggle to understand complex health information online. This study develops an information retrieval system to better match patient queries with expert health documents, improving comprehension.

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Area of Science:

Health Informatics
Information Retrieval
Natural Language Processing

Background:

Patients increasingly access online health information and Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
A significant barrier to understanding is the language difference between medical experts and laypersons.
Existing systems may not effectively bridge this knowledge gap for patient queries.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the challenge of matching patient queries to expert health documents.
To improve patient comprehension of trustworthy online health information.
To explore query expansion strategies within the Information Retrieval (IR) field.

Main Methods:

Utilized a state-of-the-art Information Retrieval (IR) system, Indri.
Employed semantic resources to enhance query understanding.
Explored and evaluated different query expansion strategies.

Main Results:

Achieved a Precision at 10 (P@10) of up to 0.6740.
Achieved a Recall at 10 (R@10) of up to 0.7610.
Achieved a Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain at 10 (NDCG@10) of up to 0.6793.

Conclusions:

The developed IR approach shows promise in associating patient queries with relevant expert health documents.
Query expansion strategies are effective in improving the retrieval of understandable health information.
This work contributes to making complex medical information more accessible to patients.