Text mining as a method of analyzing health questions in social Q&A
Sanghee Oh, Min Sook Park · Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 2013
Abstract This poster introduces a work‐in progress project focusing on text mining of health‐related questions that people post in social Q&A which they obtain and share information, advice, and experiences. 69,363 of health questions about Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) posted from 2009 to 2012 were randomly collected from Yahoo! Answers and used for text mining and analysis in this study. A preliminary finding of the data analysis is described in this poster. The use of text mining as a method of analyzing STD questions is discussed, as well.