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On Building a DyQE – A Medical Information System for Exploring Imprecise Queries

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2005)

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This paper sets out DyQE, a dynamic query expansion information retrieval system implemented in the medical domain, aimed at exploring imprecise queries. DyQE enhances standard query and result set navigation through integration with dynamic taxonomy and broad query expansion. The query expansion rules are sourced from a fine grained evaluation of data retrieval-based query expansion. DyQE offers both a concise representation of a broad subject area, and a wide variety of interesting links to related subject areas.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Dennis Wollersheim & Wenny J. Rahayu

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  1. Copenhagen Business School, Centre for Applied ICT, 60 Howitzvej, 2000, Frederiksberg, DK

    Kim Viborg Andersen

  2. University Of Technology Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia

    John Debenham

  3. University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Wagner

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Wollersheim, D., Rahayu, W.J. (2005). On Building a DyQE – A Medical Information System for Exploring Imprecise Queries. In: Andersen, K.V., Debenham, J., Wagner, R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3588. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11546924_63

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