CISMeF (acronym for Catalog and Index of French Language Health Resources on the Internet) is a quality-controlled health gateway conceived to catalog and index the most important and quality-controlled sources of institutional health information in French. The goal of this study is to compare the relevance of results provided by this gateway from a small set of documents selected and described...

In this paper we discuss the employment of a personalization component in an existing semantic multimedia search engine for digital libraries. There are different ways to exploit personal information in this context. First of all, the information can be utilized to re-rank the results according to the preferences of the user and of users showing similar interests. Further, the user can be offer...

Most portal systems provide simple web services in existing web environment but cannot support semantic web environment. Moreover, current portal systems are not adequate to compose personalized services. We also need semantic portlet search methods using portlet ontology, which can support ubiquitous environment, as well as portlet API that supports users’ access to uPortals through various ty...

purpose:the user interface of federated search engines is very important because it can make effective search, retrieval, and user interaction with the system. . identifying the most important indicators of the federated search engine user interface is a solution to enhance the applicability of the search engine interface. the purpose of this study was to examine the role of search, screen, nav...

  Wolfram|Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine software, despite all internet search engines, tries to provide the the best answer for a question or compute an equation in the most correct way based on the current knowledge. Therefore, given the unique characteristic of Wolfram|Alpha and its vast applications, the aim of the present article is to familiarize the biomedical scientists with...

The most popular mean of searching for online health content is a general search engine for all domains of interest. Being general implies on one hand that the search engine is not tailored to the needs which are particular to the medical and on another hand that health domain and health-specific queries may not always return adequate and adapted results. The aim of our study was to identify di...

Health-related information retrieval is complicated by the variety of nomenclatures available to name entities, since different communities of users will use different ways to name a same entity. We present in this report the development and evaluation of a user-friendly interactive web application aiming at facilitating health-related patent search. Our tool, called TWINC, relies on a search e...

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. • Published online 31 August 2005 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/asi.20210 that automatically collect Web pages and create an index that can be searched by users (Chau & Chen, 2003b). As these general-purpose search engines do not restrict themselves to particular domains or specialties, they often try to collect as many Web pages...

In this paper we present a new Document Management System called DrStorage. This DMS is multi-platform, JCR-170 compliant, supports WebDav, versioning, user authentication and authorization and the most widespread file formats (Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, HTML,...). It is also easy to customize in order to enhance its search capabilities and to support automatic metadata assignment. DrStorage ...