TY - GEN
T1 - The quality of online answers to parents who suspect that their child has an autism spectrum disorder
AU - Ben-Sasson, Ayelet
AU - Pelleg, Dan
AU - Yom-Tov, Elad
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Copyright 2016, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The growing diagnosis and public awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) leads more parents to seek answers to their suspicions for ASD in their child on Internet forums. This study describes an analysis of the quality of content of 371 answers on Yahoo Answers (YA), a social question and-answer forum, to parents querying whether their child has ASD. We contrasted the perceived quality of answers by clinicians with that of parents. The study tested the feasibility of automatically assisting parents in selecting answers with higher quality using a predictive model based on the text of answers and the attributes of answerers.
AB - The growing diagnosis and public awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) leads more parents to seek answers to their suspicions for ASD in their child on Internet forums. This study describes an analysis of the quality of content of 371 answers on Yahoo Answers (YA), a social question and-answer forum, to parents querying whether their child has ASD. We contrasted the perceived quality of answers by clinicians with that of parents. The study tested the feasibility of automatically assisting parents in selecting answers with higher quality using a predictive model based on the text of answers and the attributes of answerers.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84979538889&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016
SP - 543
EP - 546
BT - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016
T2 - 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016
Y2 - 17 May 2016 through 20 May 2016
ER -