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Title: HAIR: Towards Developing a Global Self-Updating Peer Support Group Meeting List Using Human-Aided Information Retrieval
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the largest grassroots peer support group for any health condition. While AA meeting attendance is particularly important for people who are newly sober, newcomers often have trouble finding meetings because of a lack of global up-to-date meeting list due to preference for regional autonomy in AA's organizational structure. Detection of regional webpages containing meetings and extraction of day, time, and address of meetings from those pages are essential steps in making the information available and up-to-date in a global meeting list. However, varied structure of the webpages and the meetings pose challenges in achieving the goal with traditional information retrieval methods. In this paper we propose HAIR: a semi-automated human-aided information retrieval technique and explore its potential to solve this problem. We describe future directions in developing this critical tool and discuss major implications of our work in pointing to the importance of context-specific rather than context-agnostic semi-automated in-formation retrieval techniques by conceptualizing the proposed methods and results in a broader context.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1651575 1464376
PAR ID:
10094317
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
Page Range / eLocation ID:
83 to 92
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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