Guidelines for contributors

Contributors to primary care guidelines: What are their professions and how many of them have conflicts of interest?

OBJECTIVE To determine the professions of those who contribute to guidelines, guideline variables associated with differing contributor participation, and whether conflict of interest statements are provided in primary care guidelines. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of the primary care guidelines from the Canadian Medical Association website. Two independent data extractors reviewed the guidel...

Guidelines for contributors

Should primary care guidelines be written by family physicians? YES.

YES Family doctors make up approximately half of the physicians in Canada and represent 68% of the health care contacts in the country.1 The standards by which family doctors provide most of Canada’s care are, at least in part, derived from guidelines. So, how many family doctors are involved in creating those guidelines? Overall, family doctors account for 17% of the contributors to primary ca...

Comparing Human and Algorithm Performance on Estimating Word-Based Semantic Similarity

Understanding natural language is an inherently complex task for computer algorithms. Crowdsourcing natural language tasks such as semantic similarity is therefore a promising approach. In this paper, we investigate the performance of crowdworkers and compare them to offline contributors as well as to state of the art algorithms. We will illustrate that algorithms do outperform single human con...

Patterns of tagging in OpenStreetMap data in urban areas

OpenStreetMap (OSM) contributors are free to apply any tags (key-value pairs) they wish to geographic objects in the OSM database. Guidance for tagging is provided by many sources (Wikis, OSM editors, mailing lists, etc). In general contributors do not always follow these guidelines. In this paper we develop an approach to extract and analyse patterns of tagging of OSM data in urban areas. We f...