@inproceedings{3f115b388c1649588c6219e9a61cc837,
title = "Trends in humanitarian health information during the 2010 Haiti earthquake: Motivation for curating domain knowledge bases",
abstract = "Health response plays a major role during disasters and information management plays a crucial role in situational awareness to adapt to evolving needs. Health organizations exchange information often through narrative-based documents called situation reports. Although situation reports are widely shared, they are an increasingly challenging information source from which to infer knowledge for situational awareness. This paper analyzed health information from traditional health reports using mixed methods during the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and provides insights into the patterns of what's being said, how it's being said, and trends over time. Opportunities lie ahead to analyze narrative documents at scale by combining human knowledge from qualitative coding with machine intelligence. In addition, developing unifying health domain ontologies representing diverse humanitarian health concepts will advance computational techniques to improve the efficiency and accuracy of retrieving knowledge for improved situational awareness and potential decision making during humanitarian health response.",
keywords = "Curation, Health information, Information management, Knowledge bases",
author = "Chan, {Jennifer L.} and Marshall, {Allison G.} and Gabriel Nam and Hemant Purohit",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM. All rights reserved.; 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2019 ; Conference date: 19-05-2019 Through 22-05-2019",
year = "2019",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference",
publisher = "Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM",
pages = "1057--1069",
editor = "Zeno Franco and Gonzalez, {Jose J.} and Canos, {Jose H.}",
booktitle = "ISCRAM 2019 - Proceedings",
}