Title
Dynamic Generation of a Health Topics Overview from Consumer Health Information Documents
Document Type
Article
Department
Information Systems and Technology (CGU)
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
Online health information use is increasing, but can be too difficult for consumers. We created a system that dynamically generates a health topics overview for consumer health web pages that organises the information into four consumer-preferred categories while displaying topic prevalence through visualisation. It accesses both a consumer health vocabulary and the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). We evaluated its ability by calculating precision, recall, and F-score for phrase extraction and categorisation. We tested pages from three different consumer web sites. Overall, precision is 82&37;, recall is 75&37;, and F-score is 78&37;, and precision between sites did not significantly differ.
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Recommended Citation
T. Miller and G. Leroy, “Dynamic Generation of a Health Topics Overview from Consumer Health Information Documents," International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 2008.