Predicting escalations of medical queries based on web page structure and content

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 769-770

  White, Ryen W ^a   Horvitz, Eric ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyberchondria; Medical search

Indexed keywords

CYBERCHONDRIA; MEDICAL SEARCH; PERFORMANCE OF CLASSIFIER; RANKING ALGORITHM; SEARCH INTERFACES; SEARCH SESSIONS; WEB PAGE STRUCTURE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 77956027383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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