The paper ‘Medical information retrieval: introduction to the special issue’ by Lorraine Goeuriot, Gareth J.F. jones, Liadh Kelly, Henning Müller and Justin Zobel is now available online: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10791-015-9277-8?wt_mc=internal.event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst
“Medical information search refers to methodologies and technologies that seek to improve access to medical information archives via a process of information retrieval (IR). Such information is now potentially accessible from many sources including the general web, social media, journal articles, and hospital records. Health-related content is one of the most searched-for topics on the internet, and as such this is an important domain for IR research. Medical information is of interest to a wide variety of users, including patients and their families, researchers, general practitioners and clinicians, and practitioners with specific expertise such as radiologists…”