Knowledge Discovery and Hypothesis Generation from Online Patient Forums: A Research Proposal (P19-2)
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| Challenge: | Unprompted patient experiences on patient forums contain a wealth of unexploited knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose to develop automated methods for mining, aggregating and cross-linking patient knowledge from online forums. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods could be compared with biomedical literature and provide hypotheses for future clinical research. |
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