Research Article

A New Biomedical Passage Retrieval Framework for Laboratory Medicine: Leveraging Domain-specific Ontology, Multilevel PRF, and Negation Differential Weighting

Table 3

Opposite relation between negation status and case status of example sentences reported in the laboratory test results (the bold words in the sentence denotes concepts that were examined for negation status).

SentencesCase statusNegation status

AFP is normalNormalNegated
No anemiaNormalNegated
HIV test is negativeNormalNegated
Eosinophil has been increasedAbnormalAffirmed
The uric acid concentration has increasedAbnormalAffirmed
Bilirubin is highAbnormalAffirmed