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SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • The possible diseases list has been extracted from the Medical Subject Headings (National Library of Medicine).
  • The translation of the MeSH terms to both Spanish and Portuguese has been taken from the Health Science Descriptors (Virtual Health Library).
  • The translation of the symptoms from other language than English is carried out by Yahoo Babelfish .
  • The ranking algorithm is fully described in the following paper:

    NEWPAR: an automatic feature selection and weighting schema for category ranking
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    Source DocEng '06 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM symposium on Document Engineering
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Session: Text-based document models
    Pages: 128 - 137
    Year of publication: 2006. ISBN: 1-59593-515-0
  • A summary of the ranking algorithm basis can be found in the following poster:

    NEWPAR: an optimized feature selection and weighting schema for category ranking
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    Source STAIRS '06 - Proceedings of the 3rd Starting AI Researchers' Symposium
    Riva del Garda, Italy
    Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
    Volume: 142,  Pages: 269 - 270
    Year of publication: 2006. ISBN: 978-1-58603-645-4
  • A description of the diagnosis algorithm:

    Multilingual Assistant for Medical Diagnosing and Drug Prescription Based on Category Ranking
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    Source Coling 2008 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
    Manchester, UK. 18-22 August, 2008
    Companion Volumen. Posters and Demonstrations.   Pages 169-172
    Year of publication: 2008. ISBN: 978-1-905593-46-0
  • Classification algorithm focused on medical abstracts:

    MEDLINE Abstracts Classification Based on Noun Phrases Extraction
    ReferenceAbstract and book reference
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    Source Coling 2008 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
    Manchester, UK. 18-22 August, 2008
    Companion Volumen. Posters and Demonstrations.   Pages 169-172
    Year of publication: 2008. ISBN: 978-1-905593-46-0