TY - GEN
T1 - Learning thread reply structure on patient forums
AU - Liu, Yunzhong
AU - Chen, Feng
AU - Chen, Yi
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The thread reply structure on patient forums is important for users and automated techniques to understand the discussion content and search information effectively. However, most online patient forums only have partially labeled structures. In patient forums, the discussions by patients and caregivers contain abundance of person references, which provide strong indication of the thread reply structure. In this paper, we propose using person reference resolution, combined with a statistical machine learning model, to learn the unknown thread structure on patient forums. Our preliminary performance evaluation has verified the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.
AB - The thread reply structure on patient forums is important for users and automated techniques to understand the discussion content and search information effectively. However, most online patient forums only have partially labeled structures. In patient forums, the discussions by patients and caregivers contain abundance of person references, which provide strong indication of the thread reply structure. In this paper, we propose using person reference resolution, combined with a statistical machine learning model, to learn the unknown thread structure on patient forums. Our preliminary performance evaluation has verified the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.
KW - Healthcare informatics
KW - Machine learning
KW - Patient forums
KW - Person resolution
KW - Thread reply structure
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U2 - 10.1145/2512410.2512426
DO - 10.1145/2512410.2512426
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84889593903
SN - 9781450324250
T3 - International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings
SP - 1
EP - 3
BT - 2013 International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for HealthcaRE, DARE 2013 - Co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013
T2 - 2013 International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for HealthcaRE, DARE 2013 - Co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013
Y2 - 1 November 2013 through 1 November 2013
ER -