MedEval - A Swedish medical test collection with doctors and patients user groups.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Test collections for information retrieval are scarce. Domain specific test collections even more so, and medical test collections in the Swedish language non-existent prior to the making of the MedEval test collection. Most research in information retrieval has been performed in the English language, thus most test collections contain English documents. However, English is morphologically poor compared to many other European languages and a number of interesting and important aspects have not been investigated. Building a medical test collection in Swedish opens new research opportunities.

Methods

This article describes the making of and potential uses of MedEval, a Swedish medical test collection with assessments, not only for topical relevance, but also for tar

SUBMITTER: Heppin KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3194176 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature