Diagnose this if you can: On the effectiveness of search engines in finding medical self-diagnosis information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9022, Issue , 2015, Pages 562-567

  Zuccon, Guido ^a   Koopman, Bevan ^b   Palotti, João ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Medical circumlocution; Medical information retrieval; Self diagnosis

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

COMPLEX INFORMATION; EVALUATION; HEALTH CONDITION; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; MEDICAL CIRCUMLOCUTION; SEARCH TECHNOLOGY; SELF DIAGNOSIS; SELF-DIAGNOSE;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84925427621     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16354-3_62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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