The quality of online answers to parents who suspect that their child has an autism spectrum disorder

Ayelet Ben-Sasson, Dan Pelleg, Elad Yom-Tov

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016
PublisherAAAI Press
Pages543-546
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781577357582
StatePublished - 2016
Event10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016 - Cologne, Germany
Duration: 17 May 201620 May 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityCologne
Period17/05/1620/05/16

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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