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        <article-title>Verifying the Medical Specialty from User Profile of Online Community for Health-Related Advices</article-title>
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          <institution>Lviv Polytechnic National University</institution>
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          <addr-line>Lviv</addr-line>
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          <country country="UA">Ukraine</country>
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      <abstract>
        <p>The paper describes the verifying methods of medical specialty from user profile of online community for health-related advices. To avoid critical situations with the proliferation of unverified and inaccurate information in medical online community, it is necessary to develop a comprehensive software solution for verifying the user medical specialty of online community for health-related advices. The algorithm for forming the information profile of a medical online community user is designed. The scheme systems of formation of indicators of user specialization in the profession based on a training sample is presented. The method of forming the user information profile of online community for healthrelated advices by computer-linguistic analysis of the information content is suggested. The system of indicators based on a training sample of users in medical online communities is formed. The matrix of medical specialties indicators and method of determining weight coefficients these indicators is investigated. The proposed method of verifying the medical specialty from user profile is tested in online medical community.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>Medical Specialty</kwd>
        <kwd>Personal Data Verifying</kwd>
        <kwd>User Profile</kwd>
        <kwd>HealthRelated Advices</kwd>
        <kwd>Online Community</kwd>
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      <title>-</title>
      <p>Available research methods are reduced to a fragmentary solution to the problem, they
are theoretical and the results of these studies are mostly not tested in practice.
Increasingly, people are turning to online communities for health-related advices. This
process has both positive and negative factors. Positive: anonymity, response time,
variety of thoughts and information. Negative: falsehood, incompetence, commercial
interest. Published information in the online community for health-related advices can
both help and harm.</p>
      <p>The community administration is responsible for the advice that patients receive.
And it is important for community administrator to verify medical specialty from user
profile and identify persons that state that they are specialists but give incompetent and
inappropriate advice. Because of given reasons, developing a method of verifying the
medical specialty from the user profile of the online community for health-related
advices is an actual and important task.</p>
      <p>Available research methods are reduced to a fragmentary solution to the problem,
they are theoretical and the results of these studies are mostly not tested in practice.
2</p>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-2">
      <title>Analysis of related research</title>
      <p>An analysis of the activities of online communities is the subject of research, among
which are clearly distinguished in web content mining. One of the important problems
of analyzing the content of online communities is the analysis of the user personal data.
Despite the significant importance for further development of this research area, no
effective methods for analyzing personal information in the profile of the online
community user have yet been developed (see in Fig.1).</p>
      <sec id="sec-2-1">
        <title>RESEARCH AREAS OF ONLINE</title>
        <sec id="sec-2-1-1">
          <title>COMMUNITIES</title>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-2-1-2">
          <title>FORMATION, PROMOTION AND</title>
          <p>POSITIONING COMMUNITY</p>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-2-1-3">
          <title>COMMUNITY ACTIVITY</title>
          <p>ANALYSIS</p>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-2-1-4">
          <title>COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT</title>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-2-1-5">
          <title>WEB USAGE MINING</title>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-2-1-6">
          <title>SOCIAL ENGINEERING CREATING ONLINE</title>
          <p>The latest research direction is the least developed. In this area, research is dedicated
to verifying the personal data of the medical online community users.</p>
          <p>The results of scientific research in this area are in demand by a wide range of
specialists in the organization and functioning of medical online communities, as those that
should ensure their success and effectiveness.</p>
          <p>Considering of the above analysis of scientific works, among the well-known
literary sources, there is a lack of thorough research on the verification of personal
information of user medical profiles and the study of the reliability of personal data of users
in social communications, in particular, medical online communities, in order to
improve their functioning. This, in turn, generates the actual problem of developing new
methods and tools to analyze the reliability of the user personal data which would have
adequate scientific justification, formalization, predictable efficiency and versatility.</p>
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      </sec>
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      <title>Methods of research</title>
      <p>Formation of a system of indicators based on a training sample of
users in medical online communities
The functioning of the system of formation of indicators consists in the creation and
processing of informational content of a training sample of online community users.
The scheme of the formation of indicators based on a training sample of users in online
community is given on Fig.2.
 Stage I. Primary data collection
 Stage II. Formation of the system of indicators
 Stage III. Formation of an information profile using the using specialized software
1.2.1. Primary data collection.</p>
      <p>Primary data collection is only performed from trusted sources and trusted users of
medical online communities. The reliability of information sources for research is a
decisive factor in obtaining a true and credible result. To this end, the collection of
primary data from the online community administrators has been carried out. The
information content is with a high degree of truthfulness, is selected to create the training
sample. The administrator or moderator is personally familiar with users of the online
community verified by time.
1.2.2. Formation of the system of indicators
At this stage, sets of linguistic and communicative indicators are formed by automated
analysis of the information track of user of the medical online community.
The formation of the information track is carried out in accordance with the model of
the information track of the member of the online community.</p>
      <p>Formation of indicator sets for the training sample. According to the structural
model of the indicators of the user specialization of the medical online community, the
division of the online community user according to each studied.</p>
      <p>Specialization of profession of the group is chosen. Each web-user for this training
sample is carefully selected, considering the reliability of the user personal information
in the medical online community and the reliability of the information track of the user
of the medical web forum.</p>
      <p>It is also taken into account the fact that the results of research significantly affect
both the context of the messages and the topics of discussions. Taking into account this
fact, the basis of this research is a diverse selection of information track of users from
all thematic sections, two Ukrainian-language web forums.</p>
      <p>The definition of the features of Internet communication was carried out by
analyzing information track of more than three thousands users of Ukrainian-speaking
medical online community. Analysis of the informational track of user of
Ukrainian-language web forums for the presence of grammatical, lexical-semantic and
lexical-syntactic features that is more closely related to the medical specialization of the online
community users is conducted.</p>
      <p>The formation of sets of indicators for a training sample consists in the following
steps:
1. Automated search for markers
2. Formation of indicative features.
3. Formation of sets of indicators.</p>
      <p>The main task of this process is consolidation of indicative features of online
communication. The formation of sets of indicators consists in grouping indicative features
into intuitive semantic groups.</p>
      <p>To find and correct errors of the set scientists developed many algorithms for
English and Ukrainian, although not as thoroughly as it is needed. In this regard, the
development of a new automated tool for finding and correlating errors in web content is not
decisive. Since the best solution to this problem is an existing well-functioning
automated tool, which is the analysis of text filtering words, the selection of words with
errors and their correction.</p>
      <p>Formation of the matrix of indicators.</p>
      <p>
        Based on sets of indicators, experts form the matrix of indicators (
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
        ) by the method of
computer-linguistic analysis of the information content of online communities for each
value of the medical specialization of a particular user, which we define separately. As
a result, for each value of a certain medical specialization is obtained a matrix of
indicators:
      </p>
      <p>
        IndicatorMedSp,OC   IInnddi1,,1MM1eeddSSpp,,OOCC IInnMdde1di,,SMMjjpee,OddSSCpp,,OOCC  MIInnedddSp1i,O,,MMNNCee__ddVVSSlplp,,OOMMCCeeddSSpp,,OOCC  (
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
        )
 Ind NM_eIdnSdp,OMCedSp,OC,1 IndN _IndMedSp,OC,j IndN _IndMedSp,N _VlMedSp,OC 
where N_Vl is a function that for each medical specialization determines the number of
values of this personal data; N_Ind is a function that for each value of the medical
specialization determines the number of indicators of this value of medical specialization.
Each line of the matrix (
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
        ) is a vector of indicators of a certain medical specialization:
Ind MedSp,OC   Ind1,M1edSp,OC Ind NM_eIdnSdp,MOCedSp,OC ,j Ind NM_eIdnSdp,MOCedSp,N _VlMedSp,OC   (
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
        )
The matrix column (
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
        ) is a vector of indicators for a certain value of the medical
specialization of the investigated online community:
 Ind1,M1ed ,OC   (
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
        )
  Med ,OC  
Indicator  Med ,OC    Indi ,1 
  Med ,OC  
 Ind N _ Ind Med ,OC ,1 

Based on this principle, we create a matrix for each web user.
      </p>
      <p>
        To calculate the distance from the reference value of the medical specialization to
each possible value of the medical specialization of the atomic k-th user of the online
community, we use the formula for determining the Euclidean distance as the basis:
ρjk Value, User   N_Ind Mie1dSp,OC  Indi, MjedSp,OC  Indi, jMedSp,U  2 * wi MedSp (
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">4</xref>
        )
when k  1 N _Vl  MedSp ,OC  ; wi MedSp – weight coefficient of a specific
indicator of a specific value of medical specialization.
      </p>
      <p>As a result, we select the value of the user medical specialization for which it is
valid. Moreover, the matrix is universal for all values of a specific medical
specialization of a specific online community for which the models are synthesized. Depending
on the subject and type of the online community, a model for each of the values of the
medical specialization is synthesized using an automated information-analytical
monitoring system. Weighted coefficients of indicators are presented in the vector:
W Vl ,MedSp   wVl ,MedSp
1
wVl ,MedSp
j
wVl ,MedSp</p>
      <p>
        N _ Ind  MedSp ,Vc

(
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>
        )
      </p>
      <p>Vector of weight coefficients of indicators of user medical specialization of the
value of MedSp-Vl is obtained as a result of the work of automated
information-analytical monitoring system.</p>
      <p>The importance of indicators is determined by the weighting coefficients.</p>
      <p>The results of the analysis vary according to the specifics of the online community.
The larger the coefficient, the more important is the lingua-communicative indicator
for verifying the corresponding user medical specialization in a particular online
community.</p>
      <p>Determination of weight coefficients indicators.</p>
      <p>The determination of weight coefficients for indicators of all values of user medical
specialization takes place using the information system of multilevel computer
monitoring. At the stage of forming an array of input data of the multi-level monitoring
information system, the information track of the users of the online communities are
processed for the presence of their markers in order to form sets of indicators for a
particular online community with the relevant subject.
3.2</p>
      <p>Forming the user information profile of online community for
health-related advices
The validation of the web personality is a complex process of determining the basic
personal data of the online medical community. Validation of online users' data is not
only a process of identifying online users, but also an important point in verifying the
authenticity of the user personal information of online medical community and
categorizing the users in accordance with the level of reliability of their personal data.
This non-trivial task requires the development of special software (see Fig.3) for the
information tracks building of online medical community users.</p>
      <sec id="sec-3-1">
        <title>WEB COMMUNITY</title>
        <sec id="sec-3-1-1">
          <title>INFORMATION</title>
        </sec>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-3-2">
        <title>CONTENT</title>
        <sec id="sec-3-2-1">
          <title>INFORMATION</title>
        </sec>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-3-3">
        <title>TRACKS</title>
        <p>IT2
...
IT1
ITn</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-3-4">
        <title>COMPUTER AND</title>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-3-5">
        <title>LINGUISTIC</title>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-3-6">
        <title>ANALYSIS</title>
        <p>COMPUTER AND
LINGUISTIC</p>
        <p>INDICATORS</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-3-7">
        <title>INFORMATION PROFILES OF USERS IN THE</title>
        <p>MEDICAL ONLINE COMMUNITY</p>
        <p>The initial result is user information profiles of online community for health-related
advices that formed on the basis of computer-linguistic analysis of the information track
of the users of the online medical community. This allows verifying the medical
specialty from user profile of online community for health-related advices. A software tool
for validating medical specialty of online users based on the method of
computer-linguistic analysis of information tracks of users of medical online community.</p>
        <p>Information profile of users of medical online community is built only from the
verified user personal data by the method of computer-linguistic analysis of content of
online community for health-related advices. So, process of building the information
profile includes also data of medical specialty.</p>
        <p>The information profiles are performed in accordance with the developed algorithm
for forming the information profile of a medical online community user. The diagram
of this algorithm is shown in Fig. 4. The purpose of the algorithm for forming the user
information profile of online community for health-related advices is to verify the
maximum amount of personal information that a user of the online medical community has
specified in account by computer-linguistic analysis.
Fig. 4. Diagram of the algorithm for forming the information profile of a medical online
community user</p>
        <p>The basis of the algorithm is the informational track of user information profiles of
online community for health-related advices. The formal model of the information track
of a user of online community for health-related advices is described in the previous
works [16]. The result of developed algorithm is classification of information profile of
online medical users.
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    </sec>
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      <title>Results and Discussion</title>
      <p>The developed method of verifying the medical specialty from user profile of online
community for health-related advices is used for analysis medical specialties of users
of online medical community “Ukrainian doctors forum” [17]. As shown in Fig. 5, the
system is processed by an average 1/3 part of users who provide professional advice on
the specialty in their profile. These users have created enough content to form their
information track and verify their specialty. Users, who is registered, but do not have
established the minimum amount of content in the online medical community for
verification automatically assigned to a group of users with unverified medical specialty.</p>
      <p>The results of testing proposed verification methods on user profiles of online
medical community “Ukrainian doctors forum” is definition 25.75% user profiles with
verified medical specialties of users which are filled the field of medical specialties in own
profile. Also online medical community “Ukrainian doctors forum” consist of 49.16%
users with medical specialties, 5.69% of all community users with non-medical
specialties, 25.96% of profile with missing data about medical specialties and 4.65% of all
users filled in community user profile incorrect data about specialties.
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    </sec>
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      <title>Conclusion</title>
      <p>The paper presents the verifying methods of medical specialty from user profile of
online community for health-related advices. Implementation of the developed methods
in medical online communities will contribute to the formation of a new vision and
perception of specialized online communities in Ukrainian society.</p>
      <p>After all, every user of the Internet from time to time needs a competent response to an
urgent question about their health situation or their relatives. Exactly the competence
of the answers by experts with a certain specialization is a critical issue. Developed
method enables the owner of online medical communities to identify the users who
provide competent health-related advices.
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