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Qcorp: an annotated classification corpus of Chinese health questions.

BMC medical informatics and decision making
BACKGROUND: Health question-answering (QA) systems have become a typical application scenario of Artificial Intelligent (AI). An annotated question corpus is prerequisite for training machines to understand health information needs of users. Thus, we...

Classifying Chinese Questions Related to Health Care Posted by Consumers Via the Internet.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: In question answering (QA) system development, question classification is crucial for identifying information needs and improving the accuracy of returned answers. Although the questions are domain-specific, they are asked by non-professi...

A deep learning approach for predicting the quality of online health expert question-answering services.

Journal of biomedical informatics
Recently, online health expert question-answering (HQA) services (systems) have attracted more and more health consumers to ask health-related questions everywhere at any time due to the convenience and effectiveness. However, the quality of answers ...

Combining Open-domain and Biomedical Knowledge for Topic Recognition in Consumer Health Questions.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Determining the main topics in consumer health questions is a crucial step in their processing as it allows narrowing the search space to a specific semantic context. In this paper we propose a topic recognition approach based on biomedical and open-...

Recognizing Question Entailment for Medical Question Answering.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
With the increasing heterogeneity and specialization of medical texts, automated question answering is becoming more and more challenging. In this context, answering a given medical question by retrieving similar questions that are already answered b...

Ontology-based automatic identification of public health-related Turkish tweets.

Computers in biology and medicine
Social media analysis, such as the analysis of tweets, is a promising research topic for tracking public health concerns including epidemics. In this paper, we present an ontology-based approach to automatically identify public health-related Turkish...

Automated Classification of Consumer Health Information Needs in Patient Portal Messages.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Patients have diverse health information needs, and secure messaging through patient portals is an emerging means by which such needs are expressed and met. As patient portal adoption increases, growing volumes of secure messages may burden healthcar...

FIR: An Effective Scheme for Extracting Useful Metadata from Social Media.

Journal of medical systems
Recently, the use of social media for health information exchange is expanding among patients, physicians, and other health care professionals. In medical areas, social media allows non-experts to access, interpret, and generate medical information f...

Automated Detection of HONcode Website Conformity Compared to Manual Detection: An Evaluation.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: To earn HONcode certification, a website must conform to the 8 principles of the HONcode of Conduct In the current manual process of certification, a HONcode expert assesses the candidate website using precise guidelines for each principl...