2020
Conversational ontology operator: patient-centric vaccine dialogue management engine for spoken conversational agents
Amith M, Lin R, Cui L, Wang D, Zhu A, Xiong G, Xu H, Roberts K, Tao C. Conversational ontology operator: patient-centric vaccine dialogue management engine for spoken conversational agents. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2020, 20: 259. PMID: 33317519, PMCID: PMC7734717, DOI: 10.1186/s12911-020-01267-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDialogue engineUser-centric systemOntology-based systemQuestion-answering systemManagement engineSoftware engineQuestion AnsweringConversational agentsDialogue interactionCompetency questionsContextual informationConsumer usersCore taskAccuracy scoresConsumer questionsEngineConversational flowHealth informationSimulation trialsInformationUsersFuture plansNext stepOntologyWizard
2019
An Ontology-Powered Dialogue Engine For Patient Communication of Vaccines.
Amith M, Lin R, Cui L, Wang D, Zhu A, Xiong G, Xu H, Roberts K, Tao C. An Ontology-Powered Dialogue Engine For Patient Communication of Vaccines. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2019, 2427: 24-30. PMID: 32704245, PMCID: PMC7376741.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDialogue engineSoftware componentsSoftware engineSpeech interfaceInteraction functionalitiesConversational agentsLive environmentEngine interactionHPV vaccine counselingHPV vaccination ratesLife-threatening cancerOntologyPrevious methodsVaccine counselingVaccination ratesFunctional abilityEnginePatient communicationUnprotected individuals
2017
DATS, the data tag suite to enable discoverability of datasets
Sansone S, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Rocca-Serra P, Alter G, Grethe J, Xu H, Fore I, Lyle J, Gururaj A, Chen X, Kim H, Zong N, Li Y, Liu R, Ozyurt I, Ohno-Machado L. DATS, the data tag suite to enable discoverability of datasets. Scientific Data 2017, 4: 170059. PMID: 28585923, PMCID: PMC5460592, DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.59.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchFinding useful data across multiple biomedical data repositories using DataMed
Ohno-Machado L, Sansone S, Alter G, Fore I, Grethe J, Xu H, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Rocca-Serra P, Gururaj A, Bell E, Soysal E, Zong N, Kim H. Finding useful data across multiple biomedical data repositories using DataMed. Nature Genetics 2017, 49: 816-819. PMID: 28546571, PMCID: PMC6460922, DOI: 10.1038/ng.3864.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBiomedical data repositoriesHealth big dataData setsKnowledge discoveryBig dataMultiple repositoriesSearch enginesData indexFAIR principlesDataMedData repositoryService providersKnowledge initiativesKnowledge expertsBiomedical research communityResearch communityRepositoryScience landscapeUseful dataInteroperabilityMetadataFindabilitySetEngineData
2012
Extracting epidemiologic exposure and outcome terms from literature using machine learning approaches.
Lu Y, Xu H, Peterson N, Dai Q, Jiang M, Denny J, Liu M. Extracting epidemiologic exposure and outcome terms from literature using machine learning approaches. International Journal Of Data Mining And Bioinformatics 2012, 6: 447-59. PMID: 23155773, DOI: 10.1504/ijdmb.2012.049284.Peer-Reviewed Original Research