scholarly journals Using a customized search engine to address low health literacy: a program description

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Jurczyk
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Information Retrieval System ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Program Description

In the provision of health information, it is the structure as much as the content of an information source that can influence a patient's ability to understand and act upon medical guidance. Canada has a commitment to providing equal, quality health care to all citizens, but a barrier to this equality has emerged as health information has gone online. This paper discusses the online information retrieval system in a patient library in a Canadian hospital, the barrier that this system created in connecting patients with health information, and how resources were reorganized to more equitably meet the needs of patients. The example of one information retrieval system provides a new frame through which to evaluate the organization of electronic information in health care settings.

scholarly journals JOIS-III JICST's new online information retrieval system. 2. Search function.

1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-322
Author(s):  
Hisashi HAMANAKA ◽  
Miki HOSOYAMA ◽  
Hideaki SHIMIZU ◽  
Katsumi OKURA ◽  
Noriyuki MOTOYAMA
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Information Retrieval System ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Search Function ◽  
System 2

PERSONALIZING THE SOURCE SELECTION AND THE RESULT MERGING PROCESS

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 331-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAMIR KECHID ◽  
HABIBA DRIAS
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Information Retrieval System ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Distributed Environment ◽  
Source Selection ◽  
User Query

The World Wide Web knows an incessant and very fast development. Currently, finding useful information on the Web is a time consuming process. In this paper, we present PIRS a personalized Information Retrieval System in a distributed environment. Most prior research in distributed information access focused on selecting and merging information that has the most relevant content according to the query but ignored the user's specific needs. The underlying idea is that different users have different backgrounds, goals and interests when seeking information and thus, the same query may cover different specific information needs according to who emitted it. However, with the ever expanding Web, users are faced with a huge number of information resources. Consequently, such query-based information access strategies lead to inaccurate query results. PIRS extends the state of the art in a Web-based information retrieval system in distributed environment. First, it develops models for representing both user and information source using feature based profiles. Second, PIRS expands a user query according to his profile. Third, it develops algorithms for source selection and results merging that personalize the computation of the relevance score of a document in response to the user's query. PIRS has been experimented with several known information source. The experimental results obtained show the effectiveness of our approach.

scholarly journals JOIS-III JICST's new online information retrieval system. (1). Outline of system.

1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-221
Author(s):  
Hisashi HAMANAKA ◽  
Miki HOSOYAMA ◽  
Hideaki SHIMIZU ◽  
Katsumi OKURA ◽  
Noriyuki MOTOYAMA
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Information Retrieval System ◽  
Online Information ◽  
System 1
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