Paper Info
Title
Conceiving an application ontology to model patient human papillomavirus vaccine counseling for dialogue management.
Abstract
In the United States and parts of the world, the human papillomavirus vaccine uptake is below the prescribed coverage rate for the population. Some research have noted that dialogue that communicates the risks and benefits, as well as patient concerns, can improve the uptake levels. In this paper, we introduce an application ontology for health information dialogue called Patient Health Information Dialogue Ontology for patient-level human papillomavirus vaccine counseling and potentially for any health-related counseling. The ontology’s class level hierarchy is segmented into 4 basic levels - Discussion, Goal, Utterance, and Speech Task. The ontology also defines core low-level utterance interaction for communicating human papillomavirus health information. We discuss the design of the ontology and the execution of the utterance interaction. With an ontology that represents patient-centric dialogue to communicate health information, we have an application-driven model that formalizes the structure for the communication of health information, and a reusable scaffold that can be integrated for software agents. Our next step will to be develop the software engine that will utilize the ontology and automate the dialogue interaction of a software agent.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1186/s12859-019-3193-7
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Dialogue system, Ontology, Patient provider communication, Conversational agent, Human papillomavirus vaccine
Ontology,Population,Dialogue management,Biology,Knowledge management,Utterance,Software agent,Human papillomavirus vaccine,Software engine,Bioinformatics,Hierarchy
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
suppl
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Amith1229.01
Kirk Roberts233439.86
Cui Tao311822.10