Paper Info
Title
MedSearch: a specialized search engine for medical information
Abstract
People are thirsty for medical information. Existing Web search engines cannot handle medical search well because they do not consider its special requirements. Often a medical information searcher is uncertain about his exact questions and unfamiliar with medical terminology. Therefore, he prefers to pose long queries, describing his symptoms and situation in plain English, and receive comprehensive, relevant information from search results. This paper presents MedSearch, a specialized medical Web search engine, to address these challenges. MedSearch can assist ordinary Internet users to search for medical information, by accepting queries of extended length, providing diversified search results, and suggesting related medical phrases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1242572.1242752
WWW
Keywords
Field
DocType
specialized search engine,medical phrase,web search engine,medical search,relevant information,specialized medical web search,medical information searcher,diversified search result,medical terminology,medical information,search result,algorithms,search engine
Web search engine,Web search query,Data mining,Metasearch engine,World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Semantic search,Computer science,Search engine indexing,Search-oriented architecture,Search analytics,Spamdexing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
1.42
22
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gang Luo174144.73
Chunqiang Tang2128775.09
Hao Yang366048.26
Xing Wei4114160.87