On iterative intelligent medical search
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
MedSearch: a specialized search engine for medical information retrieval
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Intelligent output interface for intelligent medical search engine
AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Cyberchondria: Studies of the escalation of medical concerns in Web search
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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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.