Content analysis of social tags generated by health consumers
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Authors/contributors
- Joo, Soohyung (Author)
- Choi, Yunseon (Author)
Title
Content analysis of social tags generated by health consumers
Abstract
This poster presents preliminary findings of user tag analysis in the domain of consumer health information. To obtain user terms, 36,205 tags from 38 consumer health information sites were collected from delicious.com. Content analysis was applied to identify the dimensions and types of the collected tags. The preliminary findings showed that user generated tags covers a variety of aspects of health information, ranging from general terms, subject terms, knowledge type, and to audience. General terms and subject terms were observed dominantly by showing 31.7% and 22.8% respectively. © 2015 Authors.
Proceedings Title
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Date
2015
Pages
249-250
Citation Key
pop00262
Language
English
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Citation
Joo, S., & Choi, Y. (2015). Content analysis of social tags generated by health consumers. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 249–250. https://doi.org/10.1145/2756406.2756959
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