Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A sco** review

DA Smith - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Wikipedia's health content is the most frequently visited resource for health
information on the internet. While the literature provides strong evidence for its high usage, a …

Aspiring to unintended consequences of natural language processing: a review of recent developments in clinical and consumer-generated text processing

D Demner-Fushman, N Elhadad - Yearbook of medical …, 2016 - thieme-connect.com
Objectives: This paper reviews work over the past two years in Natural Language
Processing (NLP) applied to clinical and consumer-generated texts. Methods: We included …

Evaluating neural text simplification in the medical domain

L Van den Bercken, RJ Sips, C Lofi - The World Wide Web Conference, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Health literacy, ie the ability to read and understand medical text, is a relevant component of
public health. Unfortunately, many medical texts are hard to grasp by the general population …

[HTML][HTML] A scalable framework to detect personal health mentions on Twitter

Z Yin, D Fabbri, ST Rosenbloom, B Malin - Journal of medical Internet …, 2015 - jmir.org
Background: Biomedical research has traditionally been conducted via surveys and the
analysis of medical records. However, these resources are limited in their content, such that …

A text style transfer system for reducing the physician–patient expertise gap: An analysis with automatic and human evaluations

L Bacco, F Dell'Orletta, H Lai, M Merone… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Physicians and patients often come from different backgrounds and have varying levels of
education, which can result in communication difficulties in the healthcare process. To …

[HTML][HTML] Map** layperson medical terminology into the Human Phenotype Ontology using neural machine translation models

E Manzini, J Garrido-Aguirre, J Fonollosa… - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the medical domain there exists a terminological gap between patients and caregivers
and the healthcare professionals. This gap may hinder the success of the communication …

[HTML][HTML] Clinician perspectives and design implications in using patient-generated health data to improve mental health practices: mixed methods study

DTY Wu, C **n, S Bindhu, C Xu, J Sachdeva… - JMIR formative …, 2020 - formative.jmir.org
Background: Patient-generated health data (PGHD) have been largely collected through
mobile health (mHealth) apps and wearable devices. PGHD can be especially helpful in …

Unsupervised clinical language translation

WH Weng, YA Chung, P Szolovits - Proceedings of the 25th ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
As patients' access to their doctors' clinical notes becomes common, translating
professional, clinical jargon to layperson-understandable language is essential to improve …

[HTML][HTML] Enriching consumer health vocabulary through mining a social Q&A site: A similarity-based approach

Z He, Z Chen, S Oh, J Hou, J Bian - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2017 - Elsevier
The widely known vocabulary gap between health consumers and healthcare professionals
hinders information seeking and health dialogue of consumers on end-user health …

Predicting degrees of technicality in automatic terminology extraction

A Hätty, D Schlechtweg, M Dorna… - Proceedings of the 58th …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
While automatic term extraction is a well-researched area, computational approaches to
distinguish between degrees of technicality are still understudied. We semi-automatically …