Semantic representation of consumer questions and physician answers

• Published in: International journal of medical informatics (Shannon, Ireland) Vol. 75; no. 7; pp. 513 - 529
• Main Authors: Slaughter, Laura A., Soergel, Dagobert, Rindflesch, Thomas C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ireland Elsevier Ireland Ltd 01.07.2006
• Subjects: Humans; Information retrieval; Internet; Natural Language Processing; Physician-Patient Relations; Public health; Semantic processing; Semantics; Subject Headings; Unified Medical Language System; Unified Medical Language System; Semantic processing; Information retrieval; Natural language processing; Public health

The aim of this study was to identify the underlying semantics of health consumers’ questions and physicians’ answers in order to analyze the semantic patterns within these texts. We manually identified semantic relationships within question–answer pairs from Ask-the-Doctor Web sites. Identification...