'Qualities' not 'Quality' - Text analysis methods to classify consumer health websites

Electronic Journal of Health Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Chen, Guocai ^a   Warren, Jim ^a   Evans, Joanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consumer health information; Internet; Metadata; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956267475     PISSN: 14464381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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