From: Usability survey of biomedical question answering systems
QA Comparison Matrix | |||
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 | EAGLi | askHERMES | HONQA |
Web address | eagl.unige.ch/EAGLi | services.hon.ch/cgi-bin/QA10/qa.pl | |
Data sources | MEDLINE abstracts | MEDLINE abstracts, eMedicine, clinical guidelines, PubMedCentral, and Wikipedia | HON certified websites |
Answers | Multi-phrase passages and a list of single entities | Multiple sentence passages | Sentence |
Language | English | English | English/French |
System response | Slow | Fast | Slow |
Interface complexity | Complex but many tooltips | Simple | Very simple |
Question analysis | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Target question types | Definition | All types | Definition, procedure, factoid, who |
Key feature | Returns a list of ranked terms to answer ‘‘factual‘’ questions | Answers are presented in three ways: answers clustered by terms, simple ranked answer list, and answers clustered by content | Use of certified health websites which allow for information to be geared towards people with varying levels of health literacy |