Evaluating Wikipedia as a Source of Information for Disease Understanding

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Evaluating Wikipedia as a Source of Information for Disease Understanding
Authors
Eduardo P. Garcia del Valle
Gerardo Lagunes Garcia
Lucia Prieto Santamaria
Massimiliano Zanin
Ernestina Menasalvas Ruiz
Alejandro Rodríguez González
Publication date
2018
DOI
10.1109/cbms.2018.00076
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Evaluating Wikipedia as a Source of Information for Disease Understanding - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2018, written by Eduardo P. Garcia del Valle, Gerardo Lagunes Garcia, Lucia Prieto Santamaria, Massimiliano Zanin, Ernestina Menasalvas Ruiz and Alejandro Rodríguez González.

Overview

The increasing availability of biological data is improving understanding of diseases and providing new insight into their underlying relationships. Thanks to the improvements on both text mining techniques and computational capacity, the combination of biological data with semantic information obtained from medical publications has proven to be a very promising path. However, the limitations in the access to these data and their lack of structure pose challenges to this approach. In this document authors propose the use of Wikipedia - the free online encyclopedia - as a source of accessible textual information for disease understanding research. To check its validity, authors compare its performance in the determination of relationships between diseases with that of PubMed, one of the most consulted data sources of medical texts. The obtained results suggest that the information extracted from Wikipedia is as relevant as that obtained from PubMed abstracts (i.e. the free access portion of its articles), although further research is proposed to verify its reliability for medical studies.

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Valle, Eduardo P. Garcia del; Garcia, Gerardo Lagunes; Santamaria, Lucia Prieto; Zanin, Massimiliano; Ruiz, Ernestina Menasalvas; González, Alejandro Rodríguez. (2018). "[[Evaluating Wikipedia as a Source of Information for Disease Understanding]]".DOI: 10.1109/cbms.2018.00076.

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Valle, Eduardo P. Garcia del; Garcia, Gerardo Lagunes; Santamaria, Lucia Prieto; Zanin, Massimiliano; Ruiz, Ernestina Menasalvas; González, Alejandro Rodríguez. (2018). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Evaluating_Wikipedia_as_a_Source_of_Information_for_Disease_Understanding">Evaluating Wikipedia as a Source of Information for Disease Understanding</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.1109/cbms.2018.00076.