Improving information interactions for patients, clinicians, and biomedical researchers.
 

LitLinker
W. Pratt, M. Yetisgen-Yildiz. LitLinker: Capturing Connections across the Biomedical Literature, Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap’03). Florida, October 2003. Full Text (.pdf)

M.M. Skeels, K. Henning, M. Yetisgen-Yildiz, and W. Pratt. Interaction Design for Literature-Based Discovery. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005). Portland, OR. April 2005. Full Text (.pdf)

Metamap Evaluation
W. Pratt, M. Yetisgen-Yildiz. A Study of Biomedical Concept Identification: MetaMap vs. People, Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA'03). Washington D.C. November, 2003. Full Text (.pdf)
Data from Metamap Evaluation: Respondents' Results vs. Metamap   Failure Analysis

Visualization of Quality in online health information
Civan A & Pratt W. Online health information: Multiple dimensions of quality. Proc MEDINFO 2004, p.1557. Full Text (.doc)

Civan A & Pratt W. Supporting Consumers by Characterizing the Quality of Online Health Information: A Multidimensional Framework. Accepted for presentation at The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2006.

DynaCat
W. Pratt, L. Fagan. The Usefulness of Dynamically Categorizing Search Results. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). 2000; 7(6) p. 605-617. Full Text (.pdf)

W. Pratt, H. Wasserman. QueryCat: Automatic Categorization of MEDLINE Queries. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium 2000. p. 655-659. Full Text (.pdf)

W. Pratt, M. Hearst, L. Fagan. A Knowledge-Based Approach to Organizing Retrieved Documents. AAAI-99: Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. p. 80-85. July 1999. Full Text (.pdf)

W. Pratt. Dynamic Categorization: A Method for Decreasing Information Overload. Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. March 1999. Full Text (.pdf)

W. Pratt. Dynamic Organization of Search Results Using the UMLS. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (formerly SCAMC), Nashville, TN, October 1997. Full Text (.htm)

W. Pratt. Dynamic Organization of Search Results Using a Taxonomic Domain Model. Extended abstract. AAAI-97: Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Providence, RI, July 1997. Full Text (.ps)

University of Washington
Information School
Biomedical and Health Informatics
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