Consumer Health Search on the Web: Study of Web Page Understandability and Its Integration in Ranking Algorithms.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Understandability plays a key role in ensuring that people accessing health information are capable of gaining insights that can assist them with their health concerns and choices. The access to unclear or misleading information has been shown to negatively impact the health decisions of the general public. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate methods to estimate the understandability of health Web pages and use these to improve the retrieval of information for people seeking health advice on the Web. METHODS:Our investigation considered methods to automatically estimate the understandability of health information in Web pages, and it provided a thorough evaluation of these methods using human assessments as well as an analysis of preprocessing factors affecting un

SUBMITTER: Palotti J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6372940 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature