Search Term Identification Methods for Computational Health Communication: Word Embedding and Network Approach for Health Content on YouTube.
Chau TongDrew MargolinRumi ChunaraJeff NiederdeppeTeairah TaylorNatalie DunbarAndy J KingPublished in: JMIR medical informatics (2022)
We demonstrated a retrieval technique to improve recall and minimize precision loss, which can be extended to various health topics on YouTube, a popular video-sharing social media platform. We discussed how health communication scholars can apply the technique to inspect the performance of the retrieval strategy before investing human coding resources and outlined suggestions on how such a technique can be extended to other health contexts.