Equipping machines with comprehensive knowledge of the world's entities and their
relationships has been a longstanding goal of AI. Over the last decade, large-scale …

Systematic reviews are comprehensive literature reviews that target a highly focused
research question. In the medical domain, complex Boolean queries are used to identify …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the sixth annual edition of the CLEF eHealth
evaluation lab. CLEF eHealth 2018 continues our evaluation resource building efforts …

Formulating Boolean queries for systematic review literature search is a challenging task.
Commonly, queries are formulated by information specialists using the protocol specified in …

The explosive growth and widespread accessibility of medical information on the Internet
have led to a surge of research activity in a wide range of scientific communities including …

In the medical domain, systematic reviews are a highly trustworthy evidence source used to
inform clinical diagnosis and treatment, and governmental policy making. Systematic …

This paper details the collection, systems and evaluation methods used in the CLEF 2018
eHealth Evaluation Lab, Consumer Health Search (CHS) task (Task 3). This task …

Since its inception in 2013, one of the key contributions of the CLEF eHealth evaluation
campaign has been the organization of an ad-hoc information retrieval (IR) benchmarking …

Consumer health search (CHS) is a challenging domain with vocabulary mismatch and
considerable domain expertise hampering peoples' ability to formulate effective queries. We …

Clinical trials are an essential source of information for practicing Evidence-Based Medicine
because they help to determine the efficacy of newly developed treatments and drugs …