title: A web application to support consumer health vocabulary development.
abstract: We describe a Web application that supports collaborative development of a consumer health vocabulary. It performs text analyses and enables distributed human review. It also provides on-the-fly summary reports and facilitates the generation of a final vocabulary based on the results of the review.
authors.affiliation: Decision Systems Group, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA.
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Crowell
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tse
mesh_terms: D006296:Health Services; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014825:Vocabulary