BMC medical informatics and decision making
Mar 22, 2018
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...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 10, 2017
We present an approach for manually and automatically classifying the resource type of medical questions. Three types of resources are considered: patient-specific, general knowledge, and research. Using this approach, an automatic question answering...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 10, 2017
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-...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 10, 2017
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...
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...
Findings from information-seeking behavior research can inform application development. In this report we provide a system description of Spark, an application based on findings from Serendipitous Knowledge Discovery studies and data structures known...
RATIONALES: Using AI for health information seeking is a novel behavior, and as such, developing effective communication strategies to optimize AI adoption in this area presents challenges. To lay the groundwork, research is needed to map out users' ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Automated understanding of consumer health inquiries might be hindered by misspellings. To detect and correct various types of spelling errors in consumer health questions, we developed a distributable spell-checking tool, CSpell, that han...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
The online patient question and answering (Q&A) system attracts an increasing amount of users in China. Patient will post their questions and wait for doctors' response. To avoid the lag time involved with the waiting and to reduce the workload o...
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