Semantic and Cross-Language Information Retrieval for Thai Herbs and Modern Medicine

Health Information Retrieval is another alternative for retrieving the health information on the internet as can be seen by the increasing number of the information providers on the topic of health information for the modern medicine and the Thai traditional medicine also called Thai herb. However, there are a few of Thai herb informative service interacts with modern medicine. This is partly due to the language that the information are kept by which the information on the modern medicine are available in English but the information on the Thai traditional medicine are mostly available in Thai. Furthermore, another reason could be the matching problem due to the wordings or vocabularies used in the user query that may have the same or similar meaning such as fever, flu, sick. This research is proposing to use the semantic and cross-language information retrieval for Thai herbs and modern medicine by Latent Semantic Analysis technique in order to benefit those who are searching for the basic health information and to enhance further studies and researches on the related topic area.