Health consumers are increasingly using the Internet to search for health information. The existence of overloaded, inaccurate, obsolete, or simply incorrect health information available on the Internet is a serious obstacle for finding relevant and good-quality data that actually helps patients. Search engines of multimedia Internet platforms are thought to help users to find relevant information according to their search.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Internet is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives. Internet users share personal information and opinions on social media webs expressing their feelings, judgments, feelings or emotions easy. Text mining and information retrieval techniques allow us to explore all this information and discover what the authors' opinions, claims, or assertions are.
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April 2015
Health information retrieval and YouTube can be used as powerful tools to improve user's health knowledge. However, YouTube videos must be carefully analysed in order to avoid misleading, inaccurate, obsolete and incorrect health content. We present an approach for re-ranking health videos obtained from YouTube, called Domain-based ranking.
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