MARVIN, MULTIAGENT SOFTBOT TO RETRIEVE MULTILINGUAL MEDICAL INFORMATION ON THE WEB

Authors
BAUJARD O BAUJARD V AUREL S BOYER C APPEL RD
Citation
O. Baujard et al., MARVIN, MULTIAGENT SOFTBOT TO RETRIEVE MULTILINGUAL MEDICAL INFORMATION ON THE WEB, MDedecine et informatique, 23(3), 1998, pp. 187-191
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Science Information Systems","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications","Medical Informatics","Computer Science Information Systems
Journal title
MDedecine et informatique → ACNP
ISSN journal
03077640
Volume
23
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
187 - 191
Database
ISI
SICI code
0307-7640(1998)23:3<187:MMSTRM>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
The World-Wide Web is an unstructured, multimedia and multilingual inf ormation network. While most efforts have addressed the structuring is sue, very few attempts have been proposed to provide support for mutil ingual information retrieval. Pet, medical information is now availabl e all over the world. The MARVIN (Multi-Agent Retrieval Vagabond on In formation Network) softbot and its associated medical search engine Me dHunt (Medical Hunter) are a solution for helping people, who only und erstand a few languages, to access multilingual information.