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Publication date: 4 September 2019

Yi-Hung Liu, Xiaolong Song and Sheng-Fong Chen

Whether automatically generated summaries of health social media can aid users in managing their diseases appropriately is an important question. The purpose of this paper is to…

Abstract

Purpose

Whether automatically generated summaries of health social media can aid users in managing their diseases appropriately is an important question. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel text summarization approach for acquiring the most informative summaries from online patient posts accurately and effectively.

Design/methodology/approach

The data set regarding diabetes and HIV posts was, respectively, collected from two online disease forums. The proposed summarizer is based on the graph-based method to generate summaries by considering social network features, text sentiment and sentence features. Representative health-related summaries were identified and summarization performance as well as user judgments were analyzed.

Findings

The findings show that awarding sentences without using all the incorporating features decreases summarization performance compared with the classic summarization method and comparison approaches. The proposed summarizer significantly outperformed the comparison baseline.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the literature on health knowledge management by analyzing patients’ experiences and opinions through the health summarization model. The research additionally develops a new mindset to design abstractive summarization weighting schemes from the health user-generated content.

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Aslib Journal of Information Management, vol. 71 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2050-3806

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Article
Publication date: 30 August 2023

Yi-Hung Liu, Sheng-Fong Chen and Dan-Wei (Marian) Wen

Online medical repositories provide a platform for users to share information and dynamically access abundant electronic health data. It is important to determine whether case…

Abstract

Purpose

Online medical repositories provide a platform for users to share information and dynamically access abundant electronic health data. It is important to determine whether case report information can assist the general public in appropriately managing their diseases. Therefore, this paper aims to introduce a novel deep learning-based method that allows non-professionals to make inquiries using ordinary vocabulary, retrieving the most relevant case reports for accurate and effective health information.

Design/methodology/approach

The dataset of case reports was collected from both the patient-generated research network and the digital medical journal repository. To enhance the accuracy of obtaining relevant case reports, the authors propose a retrieval approach that combines BERT and BiLSTM methods. The authors identified representative health-related case reports and analyzed the retrieval performance, as well as user judgments.

Findings

This study aims to provide the necessary functionalities to deliver relevant health case reports based on input from ordinary terms. The proposed framework includes features for health management, user feedback acquisition and ranking by weights to obtain the most pertinent case reports.

Originality/value

This study contributes to health information systems by analyzing patients' experiences and treatments with the case report retrieval model. The results of this study can provide immense benefit to the general public who intend to find treatment decisions and experiences from relevant case reports.

Details

Aslib Journal of Information Management, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2050-3806

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Article
Publication date: 15 August 2023

Yi-Hung Liu and Sheng-Fong Chen

Whether automatically generated summaries of health social media can assist users in appropriately managing their diseases and ensuring better communication with health…

Abstract

Purpose

Whether automatically generated summaries of health social media can assist users in appropriately managing their diseases and ensuring better communication with health professionals becomes an important issue. This paper aims to develop a novel deep learning-based summarization approach for obtaining the most informative summaries from online patient reviews accurately and effectively.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper proposes a framework to generate summaries that integrates a domain-specific pre-trained embedding model and a deep neural extractive summary approach by considering content features, text sentiment, review influence and readability features. Representative health-related summaries were identified, and user judgements were analysed.

Findings

Experimental results on the three real-world health forum data sets indicate that awarding sentences without incorporating all the adopted features leads to declining summarization performance. The proposed summarizer significantly outperformed the comparison baseline. User judgement through the questionnaire provides realistic and concrete evidence of crucial features that remarkably influence patient forum review summaries.

Originality/value

This study contributes to health analytics and management literature by exploring users’ expressions and opinions through the health deep learning summarization model. The research also developed an innovative mindset to design summarization weighting methods from user-created content on health topics.

Details

The Electronic Library , vol. 41 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 22 November 2019

Ina Fourie and Heidi Julien

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Aslib Journal of Information Management, vol. 71 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2050-3806

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