MEDICAL QUERY REFINEMENT SYSTEM

摘要

A system (100) for generating a refined medical query from a user medical query, the user medical query comprising a user medical term, and the system comprising an input (110) for receiving the user medical query from a user, an access controller (120) for accessing a medical guideline file (121) and a rules repository (122), the medical guideline file (121) comprising a medical information item, and the rules repository (122) comprising a rule linking the medical information item to the user medical term, and a query refiner (130) for generating the refined medical query from the user medical query by including the medical information item in the refined medical query and for providing the refined medical query to a search engine (140).