WRAPIN- Worldwide online Reliable Advice
to Patients and Individuals
European Project : IST-2001-33260
WRAPIN provides an entirely new facility enabling the comparison of
health/medical documents in any format (HTML, PDF, etc.) or length with
this interconnected knowledge base, to discover if the information exists
in the published literature and provide a summary conclusion of the
ideas contained. It will help to determine the reliability of documents
by checking the ideas contained against established benchmarks, and
enable users to determine the relevance of a given document from a page
of search results. This exciting new tool is an important step toward
the certification of quality online information.
The WRAPIN prototype makes use of new developments in the mapping of medical terms, indexing and search technologies, and natural language processing tools. WRAPIN has also incorporated and stimulated progress on ongoing projects, such as MARVIN (Multi-Agent Retrieval Vagabond on Information Network, HON's medical web spider), HONselect (the 'categorizer' which currently provides a directory of health/medical resources), ARIANE (the 'query conceptualizer' from LERTIM), and a 12-language spelling corrector. WRAPIN uses these technologies to help in query formulation, leading to accurate search results.