title: Providing multilingual access to health-related content.
abstract: Finding health-related content is not an easy task. People have to know what to search for, which medical terms to use, and where to find accurate information. This task becomes even harder when people such as immigrants wish to find information in their country of residence and do not speak the national language very well. In this paper, we present a new health information system that allows users to search for health information using natural language queries composed of multiple languages. We present the technical details of the system and outline the results of a preliminary user study to demonstrate the usability of the system.
authors.affiliation: Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Till
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Plumbaum
authors.affiliation: Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Sascha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Narr
authors.affiliation: Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Elif
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Eryilmaz
authors.affiliation: Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hopfgartner
authors.affiliation: Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Funda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Klein-Ellinghaus
authors.affiliation: Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reese
authors.affiliation: Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Sahin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Albayrak
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D054626:Consumer Health Information / Q000379:methods*; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D019303:Multilingualism; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D057386:Search Engine; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014175:Translating; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled