CMedPort: An integrated approach to facilitating Chinese medical information seeking

As the number of non-English resources available on the Web is increasing rapidly, developing information retrieval techniques for non-English languages is becoming an urgent and challenging issue. In this research to facilitate information seeking in a multilingual world, we focused on discovering how search-engine techniques developed for English could be generalized for use with other languages. We proposed a general framework incorporating a focused collection-building technique, a generic language processing ability, an integration of information resources, and a post-retrieval analysis module. Based on this approach, we developed CMedPort, a Chinese Web portal in the medical domain that not only allows users to search for Web pages from local collections and meta-search engines but also provides encoding conversion between simplified and traditional Chinese to support cross-regional search and document summarization and categorization. User studies were conducted to compare the ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: DSS
• Authors: Yilu Zhou, Jialun Qin, Hsinchun Chen
• Keywords: DSS 2006, Focused Collection-building Technique, Multilingual World, Search Engines