Relevance of Google-customized search engine vs. CISMeF quality-controlled health gateway.
CISMeF (acronym for Catalog and Index of French Language Health Resources on the Internet) is a quality-controlled health gateway conceived to catalog and index the most important and quality-controlled sources of institutional health information in French. The goal of this study is to compare the relevance of results provided by this gateway from a small set of documents selected and described by human experts to those provided by a search engine from a large set of automatically indexed and ranked resources. The Google-Customized search engine (CSE) was used. The evaluation was made using the 10th first results of 15 queries and two blinded physician evaluators. There was no significant difference between the relevance of information retrieval in CISMeF and Google CSE. In conclusion, automatic indexing does not lead to lower relevance than a manual MeSH indexing and may help to cope with the increasing number of references to be indexed in a controlled health quality gateway.
Gehanno
Jean-François
JF
CISMeF, Rouen University Hospital & LITIS EA 4108, University of Rouen, 76031 Rouen, France.
Kerdelhue
Gaétan
G
Sakji
Saoussen
S
Massari
Philippe
P
Joubert
Michel
M
Darmoni
Stéfan J
SJ
D022126:Access to Information; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics; D011786:Quality Control; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled