Content collection for the labelling of health-related web content

As the number of health-related web sites in various languages increases, so does the need for control mechanisms that give the users adequate guarantee on whether the web resources they are visiting meet a minimum level of quality standards. Based upon state-of-the-art technology in the areas of semantic web, content analysis and quality labelling, the MedIEQ project, integrates existing technologies and tests them in a novel application: the automation of the labelling process in health-related web content. MedIEQ provides tools that crawl the web to locate unlabelled health web resources, to label them according to pre-defined labelling criteria, as well as to monitor them. This paper focuses on content collection and discusses our experiments in the English language.