title: Concept space comparisons: explorations with five health domains.
abstract: This paper explores methods to compare concept spaces derived from different discourses in a common health domain. The concept spaces are generated from the research literature and from message board discussions on the Internet. We explore a number of methods for comparing and contrasting concept space pairs. We experiment with five select health domains in this exploratory research: Autism, AIDS, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis. The paper concludes with a discussion about the potential of our methods. Future work on refinements to our techniques is also outlined.
authors.affiliation: School of Library and Information Science, The University of Iowa, USA. {li-zhou-1@uiowa.edu,padmini-srinivasan@uiowa.edu}
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Padmini
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Srinivasan
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D001321:Autistic Disorder; D003142:Communication; D003210:Concept Formation; D034742:Electronic Mail; D005356:Fibromyalgia; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D043183:Irritable Bowel Syndrome; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis; D010361:Patients; D010820:Physicians; D039781:PubMed; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014825:Vocabulary