The PERSIVAL project , the most comprehensive study of such techniques applied on medical texts to date , leverages patient records to generate personalized summaries in response to physicians ' queries ( McKeown , Elhadad , and Hatzivassiloglou 2003 ; Elhadad et al. 2005 ) .
customization in a unified framework for summarizing medical literature
Noemie Elhadad Min-Yen Kan Judith Klavans Kathleen McKeown
In addition to question answering , multi-document summarization provides a complementary approach to addressing clinical information needs . The PERSIVAL project , the most comprehensive study of such techniques applied on medical texts to date , leverages patient records to generate personalized summaries in response to physicians ' queries ( McKeown , Elhadad , and Hatzivassiloglou 2003 ; Elhadad et al. 2005 ) . Although the system incorporates both a user and a task model , it does not explicitly capture the principles of evidence-based medicine .
The PERSIVAL project , the most comprehensive study of such techniques applied on medical texts to date , leverages patient records to generate personalized summaries in response to physicians ' queries ( McKeown , Elhadad , and Hatzivassiloglou 2003 ; @@CITATION ) .