Just ran in to this while poking around in Pubmed. Anybody know about
it, and care to comment about it's relevance to our work?
-Alan
A first look at HealthCyberMap medical semantic subject search engine.
Boulos MN.
School for Health, University of Bath, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HealthCyberMap (http://healthcybermap.semanticweb.org) is a Semantic
Web project that aims at mapping selected parts of health information
resources in cyberspace in novel semantic ways to improve their
retrieval and navigation. This paper describes HealthCyberMap
semantic subject search engine methodology and early prototype which
attempt to overcome the limitations of conventional free text search
engines. Explicit concepts in resource metadata map onto a brokering
domain ontology (a clinical terminology or classification) allowing a
Semantic Web search engine to infer implicit meanings (synonyms and
semantic relationships) not directly mentioned in either the resource
or its metadata. Similarly, user queries would map to the same
ontology allowing the search engine to infer the implicit semantics
of user queries and use them to optimise retrieval. Related issues of
metadata, clinical terminologies and automatic vs. manual indexing of
medical Web resources are also discussed, together with future
methodological directions, which include the use of a true
terminology server as an intelligent broker between user queries and
HealthCyberMap pool of resource metadata. A comparative evaluation of
the new engine based on relevance metrics is also proposed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15096685?
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