| Title | Is Concept Mapping Useful for Biomedical Information Retrieval? |
| Publication Type | Book Chapter |
| Year of Publication | 2015 |
| Authors | Shen, W., and J-Y. Nie |
| Book Title | Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction |
| Pagination | 281–286 |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Abstract | Concepts have been extensively used in biomedical information retrieval (BIR); but the experimental results have often showed limited or no improvement compared to a traditional bag-of-words method. In this paper, we analyze the problems in concept mapping, and show how they can affect the results of BIR. This suggests a flexible utilization of the identified concepts. |
