Search Reliability Comparison of Two Text-based Search Algorithms in an Online Literature Database for Integrative Medicine: A Technical Report on a 32-bit to 64-bit Migration

Sebastian Unger, Christa K. Raak, Thomas Ostermann

2022

Abstract

Although there is a steady increase of scientific publications in integrative medicine, it is still difficult to get a valid overview of published evidence. The open accessible bibliographical database CAMbase 3.0 (available at https://cambase.de) hosted by Witten/Herdecke University is one of such established databases in this field. In 2020, CAMbase 2.0 was migrated to a newer 64-bit operating systems, resulting in a variety of issues. A promising solution of keeping and accessing the data of CAMbase 2.0 was to replace the business logic with the open-source platform Solr, which uses a score ranking algorithm instead of a semantic-syntactic interpretation of search queries as in CAMbase 2.0. As a result, the before-after analysis with T-tests showed mainly no significant differences in the equality of the queried titles after applying SBERT, not even in the number of search hits (t = 1.43, df = 35, p = 0.17), but in query times (t = 4.2, df = 35, p < 0.01). While search hits remained stable as the speed increases, the approach with Solr is more efficient, making this technical report a possible blueprint for similar bibliography-based databases projects.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Unger S., Raak C. and Ostermann T. (2022). Search Reliability Comparison of Two Text-based Search Algorithms in an Online Literature Database for Integrative Medicine: A Technical Report on a 32-bit to 64-bit Migration. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 1: KDIR; ISBN 978-989-758-614-9, SciTePress, pages 148-157. DOI: 10.5220/0011589300003335

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir22,
author={Sebastian Unger and Christa K. Raak and Thomas Ostermann},
title={Search Reliability Comparison of Two Text-based Search Algorithms in an Online Literature Database for Integrative Medicine: A Technical Report on a 32-bit to 64-bit Migration},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 1: KDIR},
year={2022},
pages={148-157},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011589300003335},
isbn={978-989-758-614-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 1: KDIR
TI - Search Reliability Comparison of Two Text-based Search Algorithms in an Online Literature Database for Integrative Medicine: A Technical Report on a 32-bit to 64-bit Migration
SN - 978-989-758-614-9
AU - Unger S.
AU - Raak C.
AU - Ostermann T.
PY - 2022
SP - 148
EP - 157
DO - 10.5220/0011589300003335
PB - SciTePress