Abstract
MedSpecSearch (www.medspecsearch.com) is a search engine for helping users to find the relevant medical specialty for a doctor visit based on users’ description of symptoms. This system is useful for users who are not sure of which medical specialty they should consult to. Furthermore, the API of the search engine can be used as part of the online doctor appointment and medical consultation sites to route the patient or question to the right medical specialty. The system returns the top three relevant specialties when the estimated confidence score is high. Otherwise, it asks users to input more data.
This work has been funded by Türk Telekom R&D Center.
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Şahin, M.U., Balatkan, E., Eran, C., Zeydan, E., Yeniterzi, R. (2019). MedSpecSearch: Medical Specialty Search. In: Azzopardi, L., Stein, B., Fuhr, N., Mayr, P., Hauff, C., Hiemstra, D. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11438. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15719-7_29
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