TY - GEN
T1 - Patient-centered information extraction for effective search on healthcare forum
AU - Liu, Yunzhong
AU - Chen, Yi
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Online healthcare forums are one of the major social media in Health 2.0 for patients and caregivers to share personal experience and to help each other. However, current forums do not support effective information search and thus users are unable to fully leverage the rich information in the forums. In this work, we propose patient-centered information extraction to better organize the information in the forum and have developed a patient-centered medical information database extracted from a forum. In this system, the patients discussed on the forum are identified and their shared medical information is aggregated and associated with the corresponding patients. The experimental evaluation shows that our system can provide better information search results than traditional approaches.
AB - Online healthcare forums are one of the major social media in Health 2.0 for patients and caregivers to share personal experience and to help each other. However, current forums do not support effective information search and thus users are unable to fully leverage the rich information in the forums. In this work, we propose patient-centered information extraction to better organize the information in the forum and have developed a patient-centered medical information database extracted from a forum. In this system, the patients discussed on the forum are identified and their shared medical information is aggregated and associated with the corresponding patients. The experimental evaluation shows that our system can provide better information search results than traditional approaches.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-37210-0_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-37210-0_19
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874791164
SN - 9783642372094
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 175
EP - 183
BT - Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction - 6th International Conference, SBP 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 6th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, SBP 2013
Y2 - 2 April 2013 through 5 April 2013
ER -