Search for Medical Records: NICTA at TREC 2011 Medical Track
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NICTA (National ICT Australia) participated in the Medical Records track of TREC 2011 with seven automatic runs. The main techniques used in our submissions involved using Boolean retrieval for filtering, query transformation, and query expansion. Evaluation of our best run ranks our submissions higher than the median of all systems for this track, and stands at rank seven among 109 automatic runs which were submitted by the 29 participating groups.
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