Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms
Abstract Background Health professionals and consumers use different terms to express medical events or concerns, which makes the communication barriers between the professionals and consumers. This may lead to bias in the diagnosis or treatment due to the misunderstanding or incomplete understandin...
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| description | Abstract Background Health professionals and consumers use different terms to express medical events or concerns, which makes the communication barriers between the professionals and consumers. This may lead to bias in the diagnosis or treatment due to the misunderstanding or incomplete understanding. To solve the issue, a consumer health vocabulary was developed to map the consumer-used health terms to professional-used medical terms. Methods In this study, we extracted Chinese consumer health terms from both online health forum and patient education monographs, and manually mapped them to medical terms used by professionals (terms in medical thesauri or in medical books). To ensure the above annotation quality, we developed annotation guidelines. Results We applied our method to extract consumer-used disease terms in endocrinology, cardiology, gastroenterology and dermatology. In this study, we identified 1349 medical mentions from 8436 questions posted in an online health forum and 1428 articles for patient education monographs. After manual annotation and review, we released 1036 Chinese consumer health terms with mapping to 480 medical terms. Four annotators worked on the manual annotation work following the Chinese consumer health term annotation guidelines. Their average inter-annotator agreement (IAA) score was 93.91% ensuring high consistency of the released terms. Conclusions We extracted Chinese consumer health terms from online forum and patient education monographs, and mapped them to medical terms used by professionals. Manual annotation efforts have been made for term annotating and mapping. Our study may contribute to the Chinese consumer health vocabulary construction. In addition, our annotated corpus, both the contexts of consumer health terms and consumer-professional term mapping, would be a useful resource for automatic methodology development. The dataset of the Chinese consumer health terms (CHT) is publicly available at http://www.phoc.org.cn/cht/. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e1d23dd666154cb1bf1edc2bbab0d2002022-12-21T17:17:42ZengBMCBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making1472-69472018-12-0118S510711710.1186/s12911-018-0695-6Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health termsLi Hou0Hongyu Kang1Yan Liu2Luqi Li3Jiao Li4Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/Peking Union Medical CollegeInstitute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/Peking Union Medical CollegeInstitute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/Peking Union Medical CollegeInstitute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/Peking Union Medical CollegeInstitute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/Peking Union Medical CollegeAbstract Background Health professionals and consumers use different terms to express medical events or concerns, which makes the communication barriers between the professionals and consumers. This may lead to bias in the diagnosis or treatment due to the misunderstanding or incomplete understanding. To solve the issue, a consumer health vocabulary was developed to map the consumer-used health terms to professional-used medical terms. Methods In this study, we extracted Chinese consumer health terms from both online health forum and patient education monographs, and manually mapped them to medical terms used by professionals (terms in medical thesauri or in medical books). To ensure the above annotation quality, we developed annotation guidelines. Results We applied our method to extract consumer-used disease terms in endocrinology, cardiology, gastroenterology and dermatology. In this study, we identified 1349 medical mentions from 8436 questions posted in an online health forum and 1428 articles for patient education monographs. After manual annotation and review, we released 1036 Chinese consumer health terms with mapping to 480 medical terms. Four annotators worked on the manual annotation work following the Chinese consumer health term annotation guidelines. Their average inter-annotator agreement (IAA) score was 93.91% ensuring high consistency of the released terms. Conclusions We extracted Chinese consumer health terms from online forum and patient education monographs, and mapped them to medical terms used by professionals. Manual annotation efforts have been made for term annotating and mapping. Our study may contribute to the Chinese consumer health vocabulary construction. In addition, our annotated corpus, both the contexts of consumer health terms and consumer-professional term mapping, would be a useful resource for automatic methodology development. The dataset of the Chinese consumer health terms (CHT) is publicly available at http://www.phoc.org.cn/cht/.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-018-0695-6Consumer health termsMedical termsTerm mappingAnnotationConsumer health vocabulary |
| spellingShingle | Li Hou Hongyu Kang Yan Liu Luqi Li Jiao Li Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making Consumer health terms Medical terms Term mapping Annotation Consumer health vocabulary |
| title | Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
| title_full | Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
| title_fullStr | Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
| title_short | Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
| title_sort | mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
| topic | Consumer health terms Medical terms Term mapping Annotation Consumer health vocabulary |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-018-0695-6 |
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