TA Response 1.1

1 - “This project will know about various diseases, symptoms, and drugs that are used to treat illnesses from existing ontologies.” What exactly does ontologies mean in the sentence? Where is the border? Is the data on DBPedia sufficient?

Answer: "Ontology, in the field of medicine, describes the concepts of medical terminologies and the relation between them, thus, enabling the sharing of medical knowledge." Examine which ontology databases are available. DBPedia may suffice. For example, it could be something like the platform's wiki page. Current information can be gathered here.

2 - How far should the chatbot work? What exactly should its task be? What is the limit of the chatbot? Will it only facilitate the user's use of the site, or will it also comment on diseases? For example, can you comment on certain easily diagnosed diseases?

(The bot in the app called ADA is an example. It diagnoses and asks specific questions.)

Answer: You are the limit of the chatbot 🙂 We did not set any limits. He can suggest something from the site, maybe make certain diagnoses as you said. He can give an answer through the symptom-solution tree that will be created jointly by the doctors I have written below.

3 - “Users will be able to communicate via chatting and forums with discussion threads.” What do you mean by forum? Will there be comments under a certain Post? Or will there be a forum where patients can talk among themselves?

Answer: You could think of something like a DM where patients can talk to each other. As a general structure, it can be a structure like Reddit or Ekşisözlük if you want. Maybe even a quora. I think it is important to highlight the doctors on this platform, but in a separate way. There may be a hierarchical response structure. Doctors' answers can be highlighted. It may be necessary to meet certain conditions in order to write a reply. Meanwhile, the platform can be of a very different nature (for example, a platform where doctors can jointly create a roadmap (like a tree) for symptoms. Like what to do in what situations. A balanced platform that will reduce the toxicity of patients and enable doctors to provide information. It is important right now to decide on these structural parts.

4 - “Users will be able to post locations.” Is the use of Google maps suitable for future use at this stage? Can you specify with a sentence?

Answer: Google Maps is convenient. But read the API documentation well. Location-related APIs have different constraints. Like the daily location query limit. Of course, if necessary, you can change the API provider you use in the future. A little research can be done for this.

5 - “The annotations should comply with the W3C Web Annotation Data Model”. What is meant by "annotations" in this sentence? Post and comment or something else?

Answer:"With a web annotation system, a user can add, modify or remove information from a Web resource without modifying the resource itself. The annotations can be thought of as a layer on top of the existing resource, and this annotation layer is usually visible to other users who share the same annotation system."

Rather, linking certain items in the sentence to a certain web resource, like in wikipedia. But it can also be things like post and comment, rating. I think Suzan Hodja will also mention this.

6- “Compliance with doctors' advice is paramount.” What should we understand from the sentence? What exactly is the doctor's advice important for?Will we work with doctors while developing the application, or is this a valid sentence for doctors in the application?

Answer: It's like recommending drugs indiscriminately, not conflicting with what one's own doctor says. Think of it a bit like what's written outside of drugs, or what's said in advertisements.