Word2vec in practice: A similarity analysis of medical and healthcare disciplines

KOMENDA, Martin, Martin VÍTA, Matěj KAROLYI, Vincent KRÍŽ and Andrea POKORNÁ. Word2vec in practice: A similarity analysis of medical and healthcare disciplines. 2016.

Basic information

• Original name: Word2vec in practice: A similarity analysis of medical and healthcare disciplines
• Authors: KOMENDA, Martin (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Martin VÍTA (203 Czech Republic), Matěj KAROLYI (203 Czech Republic), Vincent KRÍŽ (703 Slovakia) and Andrea POKORNÁ (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: 2016.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Conference abstract
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Country of publisher: Germany
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14110/16:00090197
• Organization unit: Faculty of Medicine
• Keywords in English: Curriculum mapping; word2vec; medical and healthcare education; similarity analysis
• Tags: OPTIMED
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Modern high-quality education is based on guaranteed, structured and well-balanced curricula covering the necessary scope of knowledge and skills required in subsequent practice, which respond to changing epidemiological profiles, health systems challenges and population health needs. The general idea is to obtain vector representations of words included in descriptions of disciplines, represent the textual content in a vector space (word2vec in particular) and visualise the results of similarity analysis as an interactive web-based report. We present the findings of the real application of the word2vec approach on curriculum data and reflect on its implications in the long-term process of curriculum innovation. The paper describes an appealing way of exploring that can be helpful to anyone who is involved in the complicated and time-consuming process of curriculum design at institutions of higher education. The final visual report serves as a comprehensive overview on selected parts of curriculum described in each discipline in order to provide transparent data for further evaluation.

Links

• 2015-1-CZ01-KA203-013935, interní kód MU: Name: Medical Curriculum Innovations (Acronym: MEDCIN)

Investor: European Union, Strategic Partnerships in the field of education, training and youth