More about "Navigator"

The Navigator component places your term in hierarchical context (via Semedica's Cortex taxonomy) and provides quick pathways to narrow or expand your current query. All direct parents and children are shown in an easy-to-understand tree view. By clicking on any term, the user can expand or contract their search one conceptual level at a time.

More about "Broadening"

The Broadening component is the complete record of taxonomy parenting for the current query. Going beyond only direct parents, the broadening component provides grandparents, great-grandparents and other ancestors up to the top nodes of Semedica's Cortex taxonomy. By clicking on any term, the user can expand their search to any related broader conceptual level. This component is especially useful when a very narrow search has produced few results and the user wants to move up a level or two to broader topics that might produce more results.

More about "Narrowing"

The Narrowing component is the complete record of more focused topics that reside within the same taxonomy arm as the current query. Both children and grandchildren topics are pulled from Semedica's Cortex taxonomy and presented to user as shortcuts to more nuanced queries. This component is especially useful when a user begins with a very broad search (breast cancer, hypertension) that returns too many generic results. The user can use the narrowing options to quickly hone in on the exact topic they are interested in.

More about "Query Expansion"

Query Expansion is a vital service that runs in real-time with your search engine to ensure that common medical synonyms, alternate phrasings, acronyms, abbreviations, and jargon are not overlooked during a user query. Generic search engines do not know that the "fb" in "fb in foot" refers to foreign bodies. Nor do they understand that "c diff" is the same thing as "clostridium difficile." Query Expansion mitigates the fluctuations of standard search engines when confronted with medical terminology by giving the search engine the full list of equivalents to include in its algorithms. Armed with this vital data, standard search engines return more complete and consistent results on medical queries.

More about "Related Concepts"

The Related Concepts component uses the user's search string to suggest other common taxonomy nodes that closely align their query. This nodes can be broader, narrower, or at equal level to the search phrase. Most importantly, when the user query does not match automatically to a taxonomy node–Related Concepts suggests concepts from Semedica's Cortex taxonomy concepts that will likely match the intent of their search.