Spellex searches for
medical words of 670,000 words while MediSpell searches 170,000 words.
We compared the two products against the misspelling of medical terms to see what
help the users would get. The words tested were chosen from the usability testing
done in an earlier study of the effectiveness of Australian government medical
portals (Moon & Burstein, 2005; Moon & Fisher, 2005). Heuristic usability terms
were chosen as they are closer to natural language processing, that is, the users are
dynamic and unpredictable in the way they spell the words especially when the
word is long and difficult.
Figure 2. MediSpell search on ???schizophrenia???
For the query on
???skizophrenia??™ the
following lists were
given
Moon and Burste n
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We have chosen words such as schizophrenia, methotrexate, and Tamoxifen. Schizophrenia
is a common mental disease, Methotrexate is a common drug for sufferers
of rheumatoid arthritis, and Tamoxifen is a common drug for breast cancer.
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