Enriching consumer health vocabulary through mining a social Q&A site: A similarity-based approach.

ABSTRACT: The widely known vocabulary gap between health consumers and healthcare professionals hinders information seeking and health dialogue of consumers on end-user health applications. The Open Access and Collaborative Consumer Health Vocabulary (OAC CHV), which contains health-related terms used by lay consumers, has been created to bridge such a gap. Specifically, the OAC CHV facilitates consumers' health information retrieval by enabling consumer-facing health applications to translate between professional language and consumer friendly language. To keep up with the constantly evolving medical knowledge and language use, new terms need to be identified and added to the OAC CHV. User-generated content on social media, including social question and answer (social Q&A) sites, afford us an enorm

SUBMITTER: He Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5488691 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature