Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

11-2014

Abstract

Increasingly, individuals are taking active participation in learning and managing their health by leveraging online resources. Understanding online health information searching behavior can help us to study what health topics users search for and how search queries are formulated. In this work, we analyzed 10 million cardiovascular diseases (CVD) related search queries from MayoClinic.com. We performed semantic analysis on the queries using UMLS MetaMap and analyzed structural and textual properties as well as linguistic characteristics of the queries.

Comments

To be presented at the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Washington DC, November 15-19, 2014.


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