Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Approaches for Automatic Categorization of Lay Requests to Web-Based Expert Forums

BackgroundBoth healthy and sick people increasingly use electronic media to obtain medical information and advice. For example, Internet users may send requests to Web-based expert forums, or so-called “ask the doctor” services. ObjectiveTo automatically classify...

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Main Authors: Himmel, Wolfgang, Reincke, Ulrich, Michelmann, Hans Wilhelm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: JMIR Publications 2009-07-01
Series:Journal of Medical Internet Research
Online Access:http://www.jmir.org/2009/3/e25/