Annotating Patient Information Needs in Online Diabetes Forums
Julia Romberg, Jan Dyczmons, Sandra Olivia Borgmann, Jana Sommer, Markus Vomhof, Cecilia Brunoni, Ismael Bruck-Ramisch, Luis Enders, Andrea Icks, Stefan Conrad
Abstract
Identifying patient information needs is an important issue for health care services and implementation of patient-centered care. A relevant number of people with diabetes mellitus experience a need for information during the course of the disease. Health-related online forums are a promising option for researching relevant information needs closely related to everyday life. In this paper, we present a novel data corpus comprising 4,664 contributions from an online diabetes forum in German language. Two annotation tasks were implemented. First, the contributions were categorised according to whether they contain a diabetes-specific information need or not, which might either be a non diabetes-specific information need or no information need at all, resulting in an agreement of 0.89 (Krippendorff’s α). Moreover, the textual content of diabetes-specific information needs was segmented and labeled using a well-founded definition of health-related information needs, which achieved a promising agreement of 0.82 (Krippendorff’s αu). We further report a baseline for two sub-tasks of the information extraction system planned for the long term: contribution categorization and segment classification.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.smm4h-1.3
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fifth Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Barcelona, Spain (Online)
- Editors:
- Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Ari Z. Klein, Ivan Flores, Davy Weissenbacher, Arjun Magge, Karen O'Connor, Abeed Sarker, Anne-Lyse Minard, Elena Tutubalina, Zulfat Miftahutdinov, Ilseyar Alimova
- Venue:
- SMM4H
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 19–26
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.smm4h-1.3
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Julia Romberg, Jan Dyczmons, Sandra Olivia Borgmann, Jana Sommer, Markus Vomhof, Cecilia Brunoni, Ismael Bruck-Ramisch, Luis Enders, Andrea Icks, and Stefan Conrad. 2020. Annotating Patient Information Needs in Online Diabetes Forums. In Proceedings of the Fifth Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task, pages 19–26, Barcelona, Spain (Online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Annotating Patient Information Needs in Online Diabetes Forums (Romberg et al., SMM4H 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2020.smm4h-1.3.pdf