A Semi-informative Aware Approach using Topic Model for Medical Search

We propose a semi-informative aware approach using the topic model on query expansion problem in the biomedicine domain. the demographics and disease information is applied to semi-structure the topic model as the “known” label, compared to the traditional latent topics in topic modelling. Then, we suggest to select three terms from the top ranked documents to expand the query, based on the assumption in the pseudo relevance feedback method that the top ranked results in the first retrieval around are relevant. After that, we conduct the experiments on the TREC medical records data sets with extensive analysis and discussions. Numerically, we achieve the improvements of 7.41% on MAP, 9.29% on Bpref and 5.60% on P@10 respectively over the strong baselines.