Identifying medical terms in patient-authored text: A crowdsourcing-based approach

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1120-1127

  MacLean, Diana Lynn ^a   Heer, Jeffrey ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDSOURCING; DATA BASE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PATIENT AUTHORED TEXT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CROWDSOURCING; MEDICAL TERM EXTRACTION; ONLINE HEALTH FORUMS; TEXT MINING;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CROWDSOURCING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NURSES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84883312060     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001110     Document Type: Article

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