The explosive growth and widespread accessibility of medical information on the Internet
have led to a surge of research activity in a wide range of scientific communities including …

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 …

Background Understandability plays a key role in ensuring that people accessing health
information are capable of gaining insights that can assist them with their health concerns …

The 2018 CLEF eHealth Task 2 has two sub-tasks in order to write a systematic review of
evidence-based medicine. Researchers are required to retrieve relevant documents given …

The 2017 CLEF eHeath Task2 requires to rank the retrieval results given by medical
database. The purpose is to reduce efforts that experts devote to finding indeed relevant …

Since 2012, the CLEF eHealth initiative has aimed to gather researchers working on health
text analytics and to provide them with annual shared tasks. This chapter reports on …

The 2016 CLEF eHealth Task 3 aims to evaluation the effectiveness of information retrieval
systems when searching for health content on the web. The ClueWeb12 B13 data set is …

The aim of clinical decision support implementing electronic health records is to satisfy the
physicians' information needs. We are motivated to propose a self-attention based network …

Search engines have become a common way of obtaining health information. Although
access mechanism for factual health information search has developed greatly, complex …

Due to the increasing amount of electronic information, a majority of laypeople (ordinary
people with no professional medical knowledge) now rely on the Web to seek for health …