Testing Proficiency in Writing at San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University at LiveQA Track of TREC 2016

There are many situations in our everyday life where we look for answers to some questions “Who wrote this book?”, “How to grill a fish?” or “Where is the Opera House located?”. Twenty years ago to answer these questions people were looking them up in the encyclopedias, recipe books or were asking other people. Moving the information into the electronic form and making it universally access...

Health technology assessment at the University of California-San Francisco.

Over the past thirty years, various efforts have been made to align the incentives of hospitals and physicians to control healthcare costs while assuring the provision of high-quality patient care. One innovative strategy used by some hospitals involves the creation of technology assessment programs to develop a more thorough and objective review process for new clinical technology. The Univers...

San Francisco State University at TREC 2014: Clinical Decision Support Track and Microblog Track

The Clinical Decision Support Track in TREC 2014 involved identifying biomedical articles that could assist in answering generic clinical questions. This paper discusses the methodologies adopted by the system, Runsystem2, that we built for answering these medical questions. Runsystem2 operates by translating a narrative of a patient's case report into a list of structured medical concepts whic...

San Francisco State University (SFSU) at Total Recall Track of TREC 2016

This paper describes the participation of San Francisco State University group in Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2016 Total Recall Track from National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST). The TREC series provide large test collections and judgements for participant to design Information Retrieval (IR) systems for different proposes. The purpose of Total Recall Track is seeking text se...

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