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