Olivier Curé, Open Self Medication on LOD, in Proceedings of the Semantic Web Challenge co-located with ISWC2012, Boston, US, November, 2012. [PDF(local)], [PDF(online)]

Abstract:
Open Self Medication is a Web application that aims to ac- company the general public in his initiative to self-medicate, i.e. the act of treating undiagnosed medical ailments with unprescribed drugs. The application achieves this goal by providing a set of functionalities that ensure safety and efficiency of this practice. With safety, we mean that the system guides the end-user from a set of common mild medical signs to adapted molecules and drug products, but also highlights the risks, e.g. drug interactions, adverse events, of self prescribing a drug in a given situation. The efficiency argument corresponds to providing a rating, based on a tolerance/efficiency ratio designed by a team of health care professionals, to some identified self-medication molecules. A main characteristic of this application is that almost all the data processed by the system and presented to the end-user comes from a subset of the LOD datasets, namely DrugBank, DailyMed, Sider and DBPedia. This paper motivates the design of such an application, provides the main de- sign choices, describes some implementation details and presents lessons learned and future work.

BibTex:

    @InProceedings { iswc2012paper-semantic-web-challenge-open-11,
      author = { Olivier Curé },
      title = { Open Self Medication on LOD },
      booktitle = { Proceedings of the Semantic Web Challenge co-located with ISWC2012 },
      address = {Boston, US},
      month = { November },
      year = { 2012 },
    }

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