Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Department
Information Systems and Technology (CGU)
Publication Date
2006
Disciplines
Databases and Information Systems | Management Information Systems | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
Consumers increasingly look to the Internet for health information, but available resources are too difficult for the majority to understand. Interactive tables of contents (TOC) can help consumers access health information by providing an easy to understand structure. Using natural language processing and the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), we have automatically generated TOCs for consumer health information. The TOC are categorized according to consumer-friendly labels for the UMLS semantic types and semantic groups. Categorizing phrases by semantic types is significantly more correct and relevant. Greater correctness and relevance was achieved with documents that are difficult to read than with those at an easier reading level. Pruning TOCs to use categories that consumers favor further increases relevancy and correctness while reducing structural complexity.
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Recommended Citation
T. Miller, G. Leroy, and E. Wood, "Dynamic Generation of a Table of Contents with Consumer-Friendly Labels", American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, Washington DC, November 11-15, 2006.
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