Papers by Keshet Ronen
Language Patterns and Behaviour of the Peer Supporters in Multilingual Healthcare Conversational Forums (2022.lrec-1)
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Ishani Mondal, Kalika Bali, Mohit Jain, Monojit Choudhury, Jacki O’Neill, Millicent Ochieng, Kagnoya Awori, Keshet Ronen
| Challenge: | a quantitative linguistic analysis of multilingual peer supporters in health-focused WhatsApp forums in Kenya is needed. |
| Approach: | They conduct a quantitative linguistic analysis of the language usage patterns of multilingual peer supporters in two health-focused WhatsApp forums in Kenya. |
| Outcome: | The proposed language analyzer can be used to analyze language usage patterns in two health-focused WhatsApp forums in Kenya. |
Detecting Urgency in Multilingual Medical SMS in Kenya (2022.aacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Access to mobile phones has increased exponentially over the last 20 years, providing an opportunity to connect patients with healthcare interventions through mobile phones. |
| Approach: | They propose to use natural language processing to improve nurses' management of messages from pregnant and postpartum women in Kenya. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model did not reach the clinical usefulness threshold but could improve nurse workflow and responsiveness to urgent messages. |