Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Approaches for Automatic Categorization of Lay Requests to Web-Based Expert Forums

• Egile Nagusiak: Himmel, Wolfgang (Egilea), Reincke, Ulrich (Egilea), Michelmann, Hans Wilhelm (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: JMIR Publications, 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
• Sarrera elektronikoa: Connect to this object online.

BackgroundBoth healthy and sick people increasingly use electronic media to obtain medical information and advice. For example, Internet users may send requests to Web-based expert forums, or so-called "ask the doctor" services. ObjectiveTo automatically classify lay requests to an Interne...