Health recommender systems: concepts, requirements, technical basics and challenges

M Wiesner, D Pfeifer - International journal of environmental research and …, 2014 - mdpi.com
During the last decades huge amounts of data have been collected in clinical databases
representing patients' health states (eg, as laboratory results, treatment plans, medical …

Semantic information retrieval on medical texts: Research challenges, survey, and open issues

L Tamine, L Goeuriot - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
The explosive growth and widespread accessibility of medical information on the Internet
have led to a surge of research activity in a wide range of scientific communities including …

Facebook as a platform for health information and communication: a case study of a diabetes group

Y Zhang, D He, Y Sang - Journal of medical systems, 2013 - Springer
As one of the largest social networking sites in the world, Facebook holds a great potential
for promoting health. In this exploratory study, we analyzed 1352 messages posted to an …

Using the eye-tracking method to study consumer online health information search behaviour

J Gwizdka, Y Zhang, A Dillon - Aslib Journal of Information …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce eye tracking as a method for capturing
direct and indirect measures of online human information search behaviour. The unique …

Exploring askers' switching from free to paid social Q&A services: A perspective on the push-pull-mooring framework

Z Liu, YC Zhao, S Chen, S Song, P Hansen… - Information Processing & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to explore the factors that prompt askers to switch from free to
paid social question-and-answer (SQA) services. Prior studies have investigated users' …

The language of information need: Differentiating conscious and formalized information needs

I Ruthven - Information Processing & Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Information need is a fundamental concept within Information Science. Robert
Taylor's seminal contribution in 1968 was to propose a division of information needs into …

User motivations for asking questions in online Q & A services

E Choi, C Shah - Journal of the Association for Information …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Online Q & A services are information sources where people identify their information need,
formulate the need in natural language, and interact with one another to satisfy their needs …

Automated misspelling detection and correction in Persian clinical text

A Yazdani, M Ghazisaeedi, N Ahmadinejad… - Journal of digital …, 2020 - Springer
Accurate electronic health records are important for clinical care, research, and patient
safety assurance. Correction of misspelled words is required to ensure the correct …

A park or a highway: Overcoming tensions in designing for socio-emotional and informational needs in online health communities

D Nakikj, L Mamykina - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Over the years online health communities (OHCs) have become an important source of
information regarding health management and a place for social interaction and emotional …

Semantic annotation of consumer health questions

H Kilicoglu, A Ben Abacha, Y Mrabet, SE Shooshan… - BMC …, 2018 - Springer
Background Consumers increasingly use online resources for their health information
needs. While current search engines can address these needs to some extent, they …