Extracting, integrate and search healthcare knowledge from the web

Search engine such as Google, Yahoo and Bing has become part of many people’s live. Sign or an indication of a disorder or diseases is one of the most searched topics under healthcare section. Any search on the Web using major search engine always produces results from community question answer (CQA...

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Main Author: Tan, Siang Yee.
Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55088
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Search engine such as Google, Yahoo and Bing has become part of many people’s live. Sign or an indication of a disorder or diseases is one of the most searched topics under healthcare section. Any search on the Web using major search engine always produces results from community question answer (CQA) portal such as Wiki Answers and Yahoo Answers. Community Question Answer portal is a place in Web whereby community users can post and answer questions. Often the returned answers contained redundant or irrelevant information. This project aims to extract the massive amount of useful information from one of CQA portal, analyze the information, process them and integrate with a search system to improve the quality of the answer generated.