A term extraction approach to survey analysis in health care

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    Abstract

    The voice of the customer has for a long time been a key focus of businesses in all domains. It has received a lot of attention from the research community in Natural Language Processing (NLP) resulting in many approaches to analysing customers feedback ((aspect-based) sentiment analysis, topic modeling, etc.). In the health domain, public and private bodies are increasingly prioritising patient engagement for assessing the quality of the service given at each stage of the care. Patient and customer satisfaction analysis relate in many ways. In the domain of health particularly, a more precise and insightful analysis is needed to help practitioners locate potential issues and plan actions accordingly. We introduce here an approach to patient experience with the analysis of free text questions from the 2017 Irish National Inpatient Survey campaign using term extraction as a means to highlight important and insightful subject matters raised by patients. We evaluate the results by mapping them to a manually constructed framework following the Activity, Resource, Context (ARC) methodology (Ordenes et al., 2014) and specific to the health care environment, and compare our results against manual annotations done on the full 2017 dataset based on those categories.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationLREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings
    EditorsNicoletta Calzolari, Frederic Bechet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
    PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
    Pages2069-2077
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Electronic)9791095546344
    Publication statusPublished - 2020
    Event12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2020 - Marseille, France
    Duration: 11 May 202016 May 2020

    Publication series

    NameLREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings

    Conference

    Conference12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2020
    Country/TerritoryFrance
    CityMarseille
    Period11/05/2016/05/20

    Keywords

    • ARC framework
    • Evaluation methodology
    • Health care
    • Natural language processing
    • Patient engagement
    • Patient experience
    • Term extraction

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