A recent article reports that WebLib, “a company specializing in search technologies and natural language processing tools, has released new versions of its consumer health search engine HealthMash for users of iPhone and Android mobile phones. These free applications allow users to find relevant health information from a wide variety of trusted medical sources. The apps work as full-scale, portable versions of the HealthMash website.”

The article continues, “HealthMash combines universal search and discovery technology with semantic web solutions to find relevant health information about diseases, symptoms, treatments, drugs and alternative medicine approaches, from reliable sources on the Web. HealthMash fuses its own high quality vertical search results with mash-ups of images, videos, news, blogs and tweets from the World Wide Web. HealthMash uses a variety of semantic technologies and natural language processing tools. Its semantic search engine is powered by WebLib’s proprietary Health Knowledge Basetm, which is automatically generated from trusted health content, biomedical knowledge sources, such as the National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings Thesaurus and the Unified Medical Language System, as well as information on the Web.”

Learn more about HealthMash here.

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