News2PubMed: A Browser Extension for Linking Health News to Medical Literature

Jun Wang, Bei Yu

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Abstract

This demo system presents a browser extension that allows the reader of a health news article to quickly retrieve related medical/health research papers. This system can help news editors and readers fact-check health news for incorrect or exaggerated claims, such as making causal claims from correlational findings or inference of animal studies to humans. Linking health news to the original research papers is not a trivial task, as links are largely missing in science news reports. To link health news to medical literature, our system includes a new named-entity recognition function to extract journal names, and a new Elasticsearch-based search engine to incorporate rich metadata into the search strategy. This paper also introduces a new dataset for evaluating the performance of the proposed search system.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGIR 2021 - Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages2605-2609
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450380379
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 11 2021
Event44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2021 - Virtual, Online, Canada
Duration: Jul 11 2021Jul 15 2021

Publication series

NameSIGIR 2021 - Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

Conference44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2021
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVirtual, Online
Period7/11/217/15/21

Keywords

  • browser extension
  • elastic search engine
  • health news
  • literature linking
  • named-entity recognition
  • sentence classification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Information Systems

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