TY - GEN
T1 - Connecting the dots
T2 - 16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, ICEC 2014
AU - Chen, Yi
AU - Liu, Yunzhong
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Online healthcare forums provide a valuable platform for people to discover knowledge. However, existing approaches rely on the syntactic information units, such as a sentence, a post, or a thread, to bind different pieces of information in a forum. In this work, we propose to connect the pieces of information by a semantic information unit, patients. Specifically, we connect the information of diseases, symptoms, treatments, and effects to the patient who experiences them, and thus enable effective knowledge discovery.
AB - Online healthcare forums provide a valuable platform for people to discover knowledge. However, existing approaches rely on the syntactic information units, such as a sentence, a post, or a thread, to bind different pieces of information in a forum. In this work, we propose to connect the pieces of information by a semantic information unit, patients. Specifically, we connect the information of diseases, symptoms, treatments, and effects to the patient who experiences them, and thus enable effective knowledge discovery.
KW - Adverse Drug Reaction
KW - Health Informatics
KW - Healthcare Forums
KW - Knowledge Discovery
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U2 - 10.1145/2617848.2617864
DO - 10.1145/2617848.2617864
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84907067203
SN - 9781450326186
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 17
EP - 19
BT - ICEC 2014 - 16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 5 August 2014 through 6 August 2014
ER -