Boyer C, Baujard V, Scherrer J R
Health On the Net Foundation (HON), Geneva University Hospital-DIM, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2001;84(Pt 1):309-13.
Any new user to the Internet will think that to retrieve the relevant document is an easy task especially with the wealth of sources available on this medium, but this is not the case. Even experienced users have difficulty formulating the right query for making the most of a search tool in order to efficiently obtain an accurate result. The goal of this work is to reduce the time and the energy necessary in searching and locating medical and health information. To reach this goal we have developed HONselect [1]. The aim of HONselect is not only to improve efficiency in retrieving documents but to respond to an increased need for obtaining a selection of relevant and accurate documents from a breadth of various knowledge databases including scientific bibliographical references, clinical trials, daily news, multimedia illustrations, conferences, forum, Web sites, clinical cases, and others. The authors based their approach on the knowledge representation using the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (NLM, MeSH) vocabulary and classification [2,3]. The innovation is to propose a multilingual "one-stop searching" (one Web interface to databases currently in English, French and German) with full navigational and connectivity capabilities. The user may choose from a given selection of related terms the one that best suit his search, navigate in the term's hierarchical tree, and access directly to a selection of documents from high quality knowledge suppliers such as the MEDLINE database, the NLM's ClinicalTrials.gov server, the NewsPage's daily news, the HON's media gallery, conference listings and MedHunt's Web sites [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. HONselect, developed by HON, a non-profit organisation [10], is a free online available multilingual tool based on the MeSH thesaurus to index, select, retrieve and display accurate, up to date, high-level and quality documents.
任何初次接触互联网的用户都会认为，在这个拥有大量资源的媒介上检索相关文档是一项轻而易举的任务，但实际情况并非如此。即使是经验丰富的用户，在充分利用搜索工具以高效获取准确结果时，也难以制定出合适的查询语句。这项工作的目标是减少搜索和定位医疗卫生信息所需的时间和精力。为实现这一目标，我们开发了HONselect[1]。HONselect的目标不仅是提高文档检索效率，还旨在满足人们日益增长的需求，即从包括科学文献参考、临床试验、每日新闻、多媒体插图、会议、论坛、网站、临床病例等各种知识数据库中获取一系列相关且准确的文档。作者们基于使用美国国立医学图书馆的医学主题词表（NLM，MeSH）词汇和分类进行知识表示的方法[2,3]。其创新之处在于提出了一种多语言的“一站式搜索”（一个可连接目前英文、法文和德文数据库的网络界面），具备完整的导航和连接功能。用户可以从给定的相关术语选择中挑选最符合其搜索需求的术语，在该术语的层次树中进行导航，并直接访问来自高质量知识供应商的一系列文档，如MEDLINE数据库、NLM的ClinicalTrials.gov服务器、NewsPage的每日新闻、HON的媒体库、会议列表以及MedHunt的网站[4,5,6,7,8,9]。HONselect由非营利组织HON开发[10]开发，是一款基于MeSH词库的免费在线多语言工具，用于索引、选择、检索和显示准确、最新、高级且优质的文档。
