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CENTERIS 2011: ENTERprise Information Systems pp 146–155Cite as

Information Retrieval from Heterogeneous Data Sources: An Application for Managing Medical Records

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Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 221))

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Creating digital medical records and retrieve relevant information from them is a complex task. This complexity is given by the mixture of structured and unstructured information found in traditional medical records and that such information could be distributed in different data sources. The main contribution of this paper is the design of an architecture for an Information Retrieval (IR) system that integrates heterogeneous data sources, with a query interface in natural language. This system uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques in order to transform the user query in subqueries to be executed on different data sources, profiting the query capabilities of Database (DB) and IR technologies. The system is connected to the MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia to extend the results obtained from a query showing relevant articles to it. In addition, a general application of this design is proposed to address the medical records management problem in a Cuban hospital.

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  1. Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad Central “Marta Abreu de Las Villas, Carretera a Camajuaní Km. 5.5, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

    Darien Rosa-Paz & Ramiro Pérez-Vázquez

  2. Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Granada, C.P. 18071, Granada, España

    Juan M. Fernández-Luna & Juan F. Huete

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  1. Polytechnic Institute of Cávado e Ave, 4750-810, Vila Frescainha S. Martinho, BCL, Portugal

    Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha

  2. University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5001-801, Vila Real, Portugal

    João Varajão

  3. Birkbeck, University of London, WC1E 7HX, London, UK

    Philip Powell

  4. School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, 2411-901, Leiria, Portugal

    Ricardo Martinho

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Rosa-Paz, D., Pérez-Vázquez, R., Fernández-Luna, J.M., Huete, J.F. (2011). Information Retrieval from Heterogeneous Data Sources: An Application for Managing Medical Records. In: Cruz-Cunha, M.M., Varajão, J., Powell, P., Martinho, R. (eds) ENTERprise Information Systems. CENTERIS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 221. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24352-3_16

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