UCL Discovery Stage
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery Stage

Probabilistic Argumentation for Patient Decision Making

Noor, Kawsar; (2023) Probabilistic Argumentation for Patient Decision Making. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London). Green open access

[thumbnail of PhD_Thesus_UCL_Template-ucl-open.pdf]
Preview
Text
PhD_Thesus_UCL_Template-ucl-open.pdf - Accepted Version

Download (1MB) | Preview

Abstract

Medical drug reviews are increasingly commonplace on the web and have become an important source of information for patients undergoing medical treatment. Patients will look to these reviews in order to understand the impact the drugs have had on others who have experienced them. In short these reviews can be interpreted as a body of arguments and counterarguments for/against the drug being reviewed. One of the challenges of reading these reviews is drawing out the arguments easily and forming a final opinion; this is due to the number of reviews and the variety of arguments presented. This thesis explores the use of computational models of argumentation in order to extract structured argumentation data from the reviews and present them to the user. In particular I propose a pipeline that performs argument extraction, argument graph extraction and visualisation.

Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Qualification: Ph.D
Title: Probabilistic Argumentation for Patient Decision Making
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178702
Downloads since deposit
684Downloads
Download activity - last month
Download activity - last 12 months
Downloads by country - last 12 months

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item