UTD HLTRI at TREC 2017: Precision Medicine Track. Goodwin, T. R., Skinner, M. A., & Harabagiu, S. M. In Proceedings of the 26th Text REtrieval Conference, November, 2017.
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"In this paper, we describe the system designed for the TREC 2017 Precision Medicine track by the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Human Language Technology Research In- stitute (HLTRI). Our system incorporates an aspect-based retrieval paradigm wherein each of the four structured com- ponents of the topic is cast as a separate aspect, along with two “hidden” aspects encoding the need that retrieved docu- ments be within the domain of precision medicine and that retrieved documents have a focus on treatment. To this end, we construct knowledge graph encoding the relationships be- tween drugs, genes, and mutations. Our experiments reveal that the aspect-based approach leads to improved quality of retrieved scientific articles and clinical trials."

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