Another look at automatic text-retrieval systems
Communications of the ACM
Automatic text processing
A self-organizing semantic map for information retrieval
SIGIR '91 Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Viewing morphology as an inference process
SIGIR '93 Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Scalable Internet resource discovery: research problems and approaches
Communications of the ACM
Information retrieval: a health care perspective
Information retrieval: a health care perspective
TileBars: visualization of term distribution information in full text information access
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Stemming algorithms: a case study for detailed evaluation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: evaluation of information retrieval systems
A case for interaction: a study of interactive information retrieval behavior and effectiveness
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Evaluation of a tool for visualization of information retrieval results
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A graphical, self-organizing approach to classifying electronic meeting output
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Map displays for information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Designing information-abundant web sites: issues and recommendations
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: World Wide Web usability
Inquirus, the NECI meta search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Internet browsing and searching: user evaluations of category map and concept space techniques
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: artificial intelligence techniques for emerging information systems applications
Grouper: a dynamic clustering interface to Web search results
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Comparing noun phrasing techniques for use with medical digital library tools
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue on digital libraries: part 2
Accessibility of information on the Web
intelligence
A vector space model for automatic indexing
Communications of the ACM
Evaluating the effectiveness of visual user interfaces for information retrieval
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Empirical evaluation of information visualizations
Personalized spiders for web search and analysis
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
MetaSpider: meta-searching and categorization on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Medical Information on the Internet: A Guide for Health Professionals
Medical Information on the Internet: A Guide for Health Professionals
Self-Organizing Maps
Context and Page Analysis for Improved Web Search
IEEE Internet Computing
The text retrieval conferences (TRECS)
TIPSTER '98 Proceedings of a workshop on held at Baltimore, Maryland: October 13-15, 1998
Mining communities and their relationships in blogs: A study of online hate groups
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
CMedPort: an integrated approach to facilitating Chinese medical information seeking
Decision Support Systems
Designing the user interface and functions of a search engine development tool
Decision Support Systems
A hybrid system for online detection of emotional distress
PAISI'12 Proceedings of the 2012 Pacific Asia conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
Vehicle defect discovery from social media
Decision Support Systems
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As in many other applications, the rapid proliferation and unrestricted Web-based publishing of health-related content have made finding pertinent and useful healthcare information increasingly difficult. Although the development of healthcare information retrieval systems such as medical search engines and peer-reviewed medical Web directories has helped alleviate this information and cognitive overload problem, the effectiveness of these systems has been limited by low search precision, poor presentation of search results, and the required user search effort. To address these challenges, we have developed a domain-specific meta-search tool called Cancer Spider. By leveraging post-retrieval document clustering techniques, this system aids users in querying multiple medical data sources to gain an overview of the retrieved documents and locating answers of high quality to a wide spectrum of health questions. The system presents the retrieved documents to users in two different views: (1) Web pages organized by a list of key phrases, and (2) Web pages clustered into regions discussing different topics on a two-dimensional map (self-organizing map). In this paper, we present the major components of the Cancer Spider system and a user evaluation study designed to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach. Initial results comparing Cancer Spider with NLM Gateway, a premium medical search site, have shown that they achieved comparable performances measured by precision, recall, and F-measure. Cancer Spider required less user searching time, fewer documents that need to be browsed, and less user effort.