MedSearch

Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, Hao Yang, Xing Wei
2007 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '07  
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
more » ... 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. A full version of this paper is available in [1].
doi:10.1145/1242572.1242752 dblp:conf/www/LuoTYW07 fatcat:ezrf3kdxdzhd7molu6mie3tt2i