BiND - Biomedical Novelty Detection

Background hypothesis. In existing search engines, including the most advanced question-answering architectures, such as EAGLi, answers or documents are provided to the user some relevance-driven ranking criteria. However, providing a ranked list of documents or answers is not sufficient regarding novelty detection; therefore being able to decide whether the retrieved answer is new would provide a major improvement, which could impact the intrinsic definition of relevance. Aims.