Objective Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a decision-making process based on the
conscious and judicious use of the best available scientific evidence. However, the …

Systematic literature reviews play a vital role in identifying the best available evidence for
health and social care research, policy, and practice. The resources required to produce …

Conversational and question-based recommender systems have gained increasing
attention in recent years, with users enabled to converse with the system and better control …

The use of clarifying questions (CQs) is a fairly new and useful technique to aid systems in
recognizing the intent, context, and preferences behind user queries. Yet, understanding the …

Systematic reviews are crucial for evidence-based medicine as they comprehensively
analyse published research findings on specific questions. Conducting such reviews is often …

Systematic review is a crucial method that has been widely used. by scholars from different
research domains. However, screening for relevant scientific literature from paper …

Medical systematic review query formulation is a highly complex task done by trained
information specialists. Complexity comes from the reliance on lengthy Boolean queries …

While continuous active learning algorithms have proven effective in finding most of the
relevant documents in a collection, the cost for locating the last few remains high for …

Screening or assessing studies is critical to the quality and outcomes of a systematic review.
Typically, a Boolean query retrieves the set of studies to screen. As the set of studies …

Product search is generally recognized as the first and foremost stage of online shopping
and thus significant for users and retailers of e-commerce. Most of the traditional retrieval …