Recently, health social media have engaged more and more people to share their personal
feelings, opinions, and experience in the context of health informatics, which has drawn …

Intelligently extracting knowledge from social media has recently attracted great interest from
the Biomedical and Health Informatics community to simultaneously improve healthcare …

Due to the revolutionary development of Web 2.0 technology, individual users have become
major contributors of Web content in online social media. In light of the growing activities …

Abstract Objective Online health communities (OHCs) have become a major source of
support for people with health problems. This research tries to improve our understanding of …

With the continued advances of Web 2.0, health-centered Online Social Networks (OSNs)
are emerging to provide knowledge and support for those interested in managing their own …

With the rapid development of the Internet, more and more users utilize health communities
(known as forums) to find health-related information, share their medical stories and …

Objectives The role of social media as a source of timely and massive information has
become more apparent since the era of Web 2.0. Multiple studies illustrated the use of …

Social recommender systems have attracted a lot of attention from academia and industry.
On social media, users' ratings and reviews can be observed by all users, and have implicit …

Identifying influential users and predicting their “network impact” on social networks have
attracted tremendous interest from both academia and industry. Various definitions of …

Online review sites and opinion forums contain a wealth of information regarding user
preferences and experiences over multiple product domains. This information can be …