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Rule Based Architecture for Medical Question Answering System

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Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2012), December 28-30, 2012

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 236))

Abstract

As the wealth of online information is increasing tremendously, the need for question-answering systems is evident. Current search engines return ranked lists of documents to the users query, but they do not deliver the precise answer to the queries. The goal of a question-answering system is to retrieve answers to questions rather than full documents or best-matching passages, as most information retrieval systems currently do. Patients/Medical students have many queries related to the medical terms, diseases, and its symptoms. They are inquisitive to find these answers using search engines. But due to keyword search used by search engines it becomes quite difficult for them to find the correct answers for the search item. This paper proposes the architecture of question-answering system for medical domain and discusses the rule-based question processing and answers retrieval. Rule formation for retrieval of Answers has also been discussed in the paper.

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  1. J K Laksmipat University, Jaipur, India

    Sonal Jain

  2. GLS Institute of Computer Applications, Ahmedabad, India

    Tripti Dodiya

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  1. Institute of Engineering and Technology, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

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  2. Department of Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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  3. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

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  4. Department of Paper Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

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  5. Department of Applied Mathematics, South Asian University, New Delhi, India

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  6. Institute of Engineering and Technology, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

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Jain, S., Dodiya, T. (2014). Rule Based Architecture for Medical Question Answering System. In: Babu, B., et al. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2012), December 28-30, 2012. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 236. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1602-5_128

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