SIGIR '92 Proceedings of the 15th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Reexamining the cluster hypothesis: scatter/gather on retrieval results
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Incremental clustering and dynamic information retrieval
STOC '97 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Web document clustering: a feasibility demonstration
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The use of MMR, diversity-based reranking for reordering documents and producing summaries
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
IR evaluation methods for retrieving highly relevant documents
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A new approach to unsupervised text summarization
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Finding topic words for hierarchical summarization
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Evaluating strategies for similarity search on the web
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
Modern Information Retrieval
Lessons from Giant-Scale Services
IEEE Internet Computing
X-means: Extending K-means with Efficient Estimation of the Number of Clusters
ICML '00 Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Constructing Web search queries from the user's information need expressed in a natural language
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Improving recommendation lists through topic diversification
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Sampling search-engine results
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Improving web search results using affinity graph
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Y!Q: contextual search at the point of inspiration
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
A web-based kernel function for measuring the similarity of short text snippets
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Improving personalized web search using result diversification
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
MedSearch: a specialized search engine for medical information
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Optimized query execution in large search engines with global page ordering
VLDB '03 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 29
On iterative intelligent medical search
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Intelligent output interface for intelligent medical search engine
AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Medical query generation by term-category correlation
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium
Applying the user-over-ranking hypothesis to query formulation
ICTIR'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in information retrieval theory
Health information searching behavior in MedlinePlus and the impact of tasks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
Automatic Home Medical Product Recommendation
Journal of Medical Systems
Detecting Fake Medical Web Sites Using Recursive Trust Labeling
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
MedRank: discovering influential medical treatments from literature by information network analysis
ADC '13 Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Australasian Database Conference - Volume 137
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People are thirsty for medical information. Existing Web search engines often 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 sometimes 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 uses several key techniques to improve its usability and the quality of search results. First, it accepts queries of extended length and reforms long queries into shorter queries by extracting a subset of important and representative words. This not only significantly increases the query processing speed but also improves the quality of search results. Second, it provides diversified search results. Lastly, it suggests related medical phrases to help the user quickly digest search results and refine the query. We evaluated MedSearch using medical questions posted on medical discussion forums. The results show that MedSearch can handle various medical queries effectively and efficiently.