Health dialog systems for patients and consumers

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 556-571

  Bickmore, Timothy ^a   Giorgino, Toni ^b  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavioral informatics; Consumer informatics; Dialog system; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DATA REDUCTION; HEALTH RISKS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT TREATMENT;

BEHAVIORAL INFORMATICS; CONSUMER INFORMATICS; DIALOG SYSTEM; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

HEALTH CARE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; CONSUMER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORETICAL STUDY;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT EDUCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33745777549     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2005.12.004     Document Type: Review

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