LongLife: a Platform for Personalized Search for Health and Life Sciences

Patrick Ernst, Erisa Terolli, Gerhard Weikum
2019 International Semantic Web Conference  
This work demonstrates Longlife: a system for semantically enhanced, personalized search of information about health issues and life-science topics. The system supports user-friendly access to entities, categories and free-text phrases in a corpus of 21 million documents, comprising scientific publications, clinical trials, encyclopedic articles, biomedical news and health forum posts. Search results can be personalized for two kinds of users: patients can provide descriptions of their health
more » ... story, symptoms and therapies in layperson terms (as in health discussion forums), and doctors or researchers can target specific entities and categories (for disorders, symptoms, risk factors, drugs etc. -e.g., when searching on behalf of a patient).
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