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Most of Information Retrieval models for documents are intended for SGML-like structured documents. In the context of medical informatics, the Patient Record document needs a looser structuration process as an a priori structure can hardly be defined. Thus we propose an authoring tool that allows to annotate embedded information, i.e. to give them a context, with qualifiers that are stored in a thesaurus rather than in SGML-like DTD. The retrieval process in the Patient Records collection takes into account the flexibility of the qualifying process while reformulating the queries (synonymy, generalization and specialization relationships between qualifiers).
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Laforest, F., Tchounikine, A. (1999). A Model for Querying Annotated Documents. In: Eder, J., Rozman, I., Welzer, T. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48252-0_5
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