Bridging the Vocabulary Gap between Health Seekers and Healthcare Knowledge

• Main Authors: NIE, Liqiang, ZHAO, Yiliang, Mohammad, Akbari, SHEN, Jialie, CHUA, Tat-Seng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Healthcare; global learning; local mining; medical terminology assignment; question answering; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems; Medicine and Health Sciences; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2252; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3252/viewcontent/BridgingVocabularyGapHealthSeekers_2015.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The vocabulary gap between health seekers and providers has hindered the cross-system operability and the interuser reusability. To bridge this gap, this paper presents a novel scheme to code the medical records by jointly utilizing local mining and global learning approaches, which are tightly link...