NetBase Launches Free Semantic Search Demo Site: healthBase
by Barbara Quint, Newsbreaks (Sept 17)
This is an in-depth report on the Health Base service that showcases semantic searching technology from NetBase Solutions.
"The healthBase (http://healthbase.netbase.com) service that launched earlier this month is open to all users, providing structured searches built around four tabs covering treatments of conditions, causes of conditions, complications of conditions, and pros and cons of treatments. The service taps into masses of documents from a limited number of sources, extracting relevant sentences and sorting them into categories for display. That's the good news. The unfortunate news is that some observers have approached healthBase as a full-service health information source and found it wanting-not unexpected if one considers its primary purpose is demonstrating technology."
Bottom line seems to be that this is something to try - it may do a good job on the topic, and to watch - because there are continuous improvements underway.
Posted by Gwen at October 3, 2009 02:51 AM