The paper is devoted to detailed investigation of users' behavior and level of expertise on online medical forums. Two popular forums were analyzed in terms of presence of experts who answer health related questions and participate in discussions. This study provides insight into the quality of medical information that one can get from the web resources, and also illustrates relationship between approved medical experts and popular authors of the considered forums. During experiments several machine learning and natural language processing methods were evaluated against to available web content to get further understanding of structure and distribution of information about medicine available online nowadays. As a result of this study the hypothesis of existing correlation between approved medical experts and popular authors has been rejected.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBIGDATA CONFERENCE (FORMERLY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIG DATA AND ITS APPLICATIONS).
PublisherIOP Publishing Ltd.
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Oct 2017
Event4th Big Data Conference (BDC) - Moscow
Duration: 15 Sep 2017 → …

Publication series

NameJournal of Physics: Conference Series
PublisherIOP Publishing Ltd.
Volume913
ISSN (Print)1742-6588

Conference

Conference4th Big Data Conference (BDC)
CityMoscow
Period15/09/17 → …

    Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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