Real-time chat web app that recommends PubMed citations relevant to the conversation thread. This code is for research purposes, please cite the following publication (DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-207) when modifying or using this source code.
@inproceedings{SamuelZaiane2017,
title = {{PubMedReco: A PubMed Citations Recommender System for Real-Time Chat}},
author = {Samuel, Hamman and Zaiane, Osmar},
booktitle = {16th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo)},
year = {2017},
organization = {IMIA}
}
A working live web app is available for demo purposes.
This code uses the following free or open source libraries.
The code is tested with PHP Version 7.2.6. For local use, XAMPP is recommended for quick set up. To set up the database, create it in phpMyAdmin as dictionary_db
and then import the dictionary_db.sql
file to create the necessary tables. To change database connection configurations, edit connect.php
.