Consumer Health Search on the Web: Study of Web Page Understandability and Its Integration in Ranking Algorithms
<h3>Background:</h3><p dir="ltr">Understandability plays a key role in ensuring that people accessing health information are capable of gaining insights that can assist them with their health concerns and choices. The access to unclear or misleading information has been s...
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| author | Joao Palotti (8479842) |
| author2 | Guido Zuccon (18618922) Allan Hanbury (18618925) |
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| author_facet | Joao Palotti (8479842) Guido Zuccon (18618922) Allan Hanbury (18618925) |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Joao Palotti (8479842) Guido Zuccon (18618922) Allan Hanbury (18618925) |
| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2019-01-30T03:00:00Z |
| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | 10.2196/10986 |
| dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv | https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Consumer_Health_Search_on_the_Web_Study_of_Web_Page_Understandability_and_Its_Integration_in_Ranking_Algorithms/25907773 |
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| dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv | Health sciences Health services and systems readability literacy comprehension patients machine learning |
| dc.title.none.fl_str_mv | Consumer Health Search on the Web: Study of Web Page Understandability and Its Integration in Ranking Algorithms |
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| description | <h3>Background:</h3><p dir="ltr">Understandability plays a key role in ensuring that people accessing health information are capable of gaining insights that can assist them with their health concerns and choices. The access to unclear or misleading information has been shown to negatively impact the health decisions of the general public.</p><p><br></p><h3>Objective:</h3><p dir="ltr">The aim of this study was to investigate methods to estimate the understandability of health Web pages and use these to improve the retrieval of information for people seeking health advice on the Web.</p><p><br></p><h3>Methods:</h3><p dir="ltr">Our investigation considered methods to automatically estimate the understandability of health information in Web pages, and it provided a thorough evaluation of these methods using human assessments as well as an analysis of preprocessing factors affecting understandability estimations and associated pitfalls. Furthermore, lessons learned for estimating Web page understandability were applied to the construction of retrieval methods, with specific attention to retrieving information understandable by the general public.</p><p><br></p><h3>Results:</h3><p dir="ltr">We found that machine learning techniques were more suitable to estimate health Web page understandability than traditional readability formulae, which are often used as guidelines and benchmark by health information providers on the Web (larger difference found for Pearson correlation of .602 using gradient boosting regressor compared with .438 using Simple Measure of Gobbledygook Index with the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum eHealth 2015 collection).</p><p><br></p><h3>Conclusions:</h3><p dir="ltr">The findings reported in this paper are important for specialized search services tailored to support the general public in seeking health advice on the Web, as they document and empirically validate state-of-the-art techniques and settings for this domain application.</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">J Med Internet Res 2019;21(1):e10986</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/10986" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/10986</a></p> |
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| spelling | Consumer Health Search on the Web: Study of Web Page Understandability and Its Integration in Ranking AlgorithmsJoao Palotti (8479842)Guido Zuccon (18618922)Allan Hanbury (18618925)Health sciencesHealth services and systemsreadabilityliteracycomprehensionpatientsmachine learning<h3>Background:</h3><p dir="ltr">Understandability plays a key role in ensuring that people accessing health information are capable of gaining insights that can assist them with their health concerns and choices. The access to unclear or misleading information has been shown to negatively impact the health decisions of the general public.</p><p><br></p><h3>Objective:</h3><p dir="ltr">The aim of this study was to investigate methods to estimate the understandability of health Web pages and use these to improve the retrieval of information for people seeking health advice on the Web.</p><p><br></p><h3>Methods:</h3><p dir="ltr">Our investigation considered methods to automatically estimate the understandability of health information in Web pages, and it provided a thorough evaluation of these methods using human assessments as well as an analysis of preprocessing factors affecting understandability estimations and associated pitfalls. Furthermore, lessons learned for estimating Web page understandability were applied to the construction of retrieval methods, with specific attention to retrieving information understandable by the general public.</p><p><br></p><h3>Results:</h3><p dir="ltr">We found that machine learning techniques were more suitable to estimate health Web page understandability than traditional readability formulae, which are often used as guidelines and benchmark by health information providers on the Web (larger difference found for Pearson correlation of .602 using gradient boosting regressor compared with .438 using Simple Measure of Gobbledygook Index with the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum eHealth 2015 collection).</p><p><br></p><h3>Conclusions:</h3><p dir="ltr">The findings reported in this paper are important for specialized search services tailored to support the general public in seeking health advice on the Web, as they document and empirically validate state-of-the-art techniques and settings for this domain application.</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">J Med Internet Res 2019;21(1):e10986</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/10986" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/10986</a></p>2019-01-30T03:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.2196/10986https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Consumer_Health_Search_on_the_Web_Study_of_Web_Page_Understandability_and_Its_Integration_in_Ranking_Algorithms/25907773CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/259077732019-01-30T03:00:00Z |
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| title | Consumer Health Search on the Web: Study of Web Page Understandability and Its Integration in Ranking Algorithms |
| title_full | Consumer Health Search on the Web: Study of Web Page Understandability and Its Integration in Ranking Algorithms |
| title_fullStr | Consumer Health Search on the Web: Study of Web Page Understandability and Its Integration in Ranking Algorithms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Consumer Health Search on the Web: Study of Web Page Understandability and Its Integration in Ranking Algorithms |
| title_short | Consumer Health Search on the Web: Study of Web Page Understandability and Its Integration in Ranking Algorithms |
| title_sort | Consumer Health Search on the Web: Study of Web Page Understandability and Its Integration in Ranking Algorithms |
| topic | Health sciences Health services and systems readability literacy comprehension patients machine learning |