Medical Information Access for the New Millenium: UMLS-Enhanced Semantic Parsing and Personalized Medical Agent

摘要

With the explosion of medical information accessible via the Internet, there is a growing need for development of better access to the online medical literature databases through user-friendly interfaces. Using existing search engines is very time consuming and the results are often too general or inaccurate. Particularly frustrating is that simple queries can result in an excessive number of documents retrieved--too many to search through to determine which are and which are not relevant. Our goal is to extend a bridge across this medical information gap by creating easy-to-use interfaces to medical literature databases.