Text mining and natural language processing approaches for automatic categorization of lay requests to web-based expert forums

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Himmel, Wolfgang ^a   Reincke, Ulrich ^b   Michelmann, Hans Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b SAS Institute GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer health informatics; Infertility; Internet; Natural language processing; Qualitative research; Remote consultation; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHILDLESSNESS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL EXPERT; MENSTRUATION; OVULATION; PREGNANCY TEST; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; E-MAIL; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ORTHOPEDICS; PARENT; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

AUTOMATION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ORTHOPEDICS; PARENTS; REPRODUCTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 68149131790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1123     Document Type: Article

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