2Gather4Health: Automatic Web Identification of Solutions in Patient Innovation

Patient Innovation is an online open platform, with a community of over 60.000 users and more than 800 innovative solutions developed by patients and informal caregivers from all over the world. These solutions and/or creators were found by manually searching the Web through a combination of appropriate keywords and using experts to curate the results. In this paper we present a dedicated web-crawler architecture that includes a text classifier able to automatically identify Patient Innovation solutions from the web. The classifier is composed by a 2-layer hybrid MNB and Fuzzy Fingerprint classifier.