A Restricted Domain Medical Question Answering System

Vijeta, Basant Verma

Abstract: Physicians have many questions when diagnosis patients; and frequently need to seek answers for their questions. Information retrieval search systems typically return a list of documents in response to a users query. In this aspect web search engine designed for search of information on internet; give sets of relevant documents related to user query. Thus this makes flooding of documents where user spends healthy time to scan and read all documents to get desired outcome. So there is great need to automate the overall process; so that user gets answer in the form of compact text; rather than list of documents containing answer of user query. This aims at developing medical question answering system which is quite similar to search engine but rather composite in its methodology.

Keywords: Information Retrieval System, Question Answering System, Knowledge Base, Web Pages