Deriving a Test Collection for Clinical Information Retrieval from Systematic Reviews

摘要

In this paper, we describe the construction of a test collection for evaluating clinical information retrieval. The purpose of this test collection is to provide a basis for researchers to experiment with PECO-structured queries. Systematic reviews are used as a starting point for generating queries and relevance judgments. We give some details on the difficulties encountered in building this resource and report the results achieved by current state-of-the-art approaches.