This paper investigates the significant impact different prompts have on the behaviour of
ChatGPT when used for health information seeking. As people more and more depend on …

Background Limited medical evidence for managing post-stroke fatigue leads stroke
survivors to seek information through other sources. This sco** review aimed to identify …

This paper reports on the 3rd CLEFeHealth evaluation lab, which continues our evaluation
resource building activities for the medical domain. In this edition of the lab, we focus on …

Although relevance is known to be a multidimensional concept, information retrieval
measures mainly consider one dimension of relevance: topicality. In this paper we propose …

Web search engines have long served as indispensable tools for information retrieval; user
behavior and query formulation strategies have been well studied. The introduction of …

This paper details methods, results and analysis of the CLEF 2015 eHealth Evaluation Lab,
Task 2. This task investigates the effectiveness of web search engines in providing access to …

The internet is an important source of medical knowledge for everyone, from laypeople to
medical professionals. We investigate how these two extremes, in terms of user groups …

The majority of Internet users search for medical information online; however, many do not
have an adequate medical vocabulary. Users might have difficulties finding the most …

This paper details the collection, systems and evaluation methods used in the IR Task of the
CLEF 2016 eHealth Evaluation Lab. This task investigates the effectiveness of web search …

Increasingly, people go online to seek health advice. They commonly use the symptoms
they are experiencing to identify the health conditions they may have (self-diagnosis task) as …