Informational support or emotional support: Preliminary study of an automated approach to analyze online support community contents

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Huang, Kuang Yuan ^a   Nambisan, Priya ^b   Uzuner, Özlem ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Machine learning; Online support community; Research method

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; BREAST CANCER; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTENT ANALYSIS METHOD; INFORMATIONAL SUPPORT; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MANUAL INTERVENTION; MESSAGE BOARDS; ONLINE SUPPORT; PROSTATE CANCERS; RESEARCH METHODS;

DISEASES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870958017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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