Summary of STD Experiments

Input Web Page, B: Wikipedia STD site [41]

Extracted Keywords, SB : transmit, sexually, transmitting, transmitted, infection, std, sti, hepatitis, infected,

infections, transmission, stis, herpes, viruses, virus, chlamydia, 9, stds, sexual, disease, hiv, membrane, genital,

intercourse, diseases, pmid, hpv, mucous, viral, 2006

Input Web Page, B , ("control" page): Medical Terms Site [29]

Extracted "Control" Keywords, SB : Ablation, Ah-Al, Aneurysm, thoracic, Arteria femoralis, Barosinusitis,

Bone mineral density, Cancer, larynx, Chain-termination codon, Cockayne syndrome, Cranial nerve IX,

Dengue, Disorder, cephalic, ECT, Errors of metabolism, inborn, Fear of nudity, Fracture, comminuted, Gland,

thymus, Hecht-Beals syndrome, Hormone, thyroxine, Immunocompetent, Iris melanoma, Laparoscopic, Lung

reduction surgery, Medication, clot-dissolving, Mohs surgery, Nasogastric tube, Normoxia, Osteosarcoma,

PCR (polymerase chain reaction), Plan B

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Sensitive Keywords, KST D : STD, Chancroid, Chlamydia, Donovanosis, Gonorrhea, Lymphogranuloma

venereum, Non-gonococcal urethritis, Syphilis, Cytomegalovirus, Hepatitis B, Herpes, HSV, Human Immun-

odeficiency Virus, HIV, Human papillomavirus, HPV, genital warts, Molluscum, Severe acute respiratory

syndrome, SARS, Pubic lice, Scabies, crabs, Trichomoniasis, yeast infection, bacterial vaginosis, trichomonas,

mites, nongonococcal urethritis, NGU, molluscum contagiosm virus, MCV, Herpes Simplex Virus, Acquired

immunodeficiency syndrome, aids, pubic lice, HTLV, trichomonas, amebiasis, Bacterial Vaginosis, Campy-

lobacter Fetus, Candidiasis, Condyloma Acuminata, Enteric Infections, Genital Mycoplasmas, Genital Warts,

Giardiasis, Granuloma Inguinale, Pediculosis Pubis, Salmonella, Shingellosis, vaginitis

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Percentage of words in SB yielding a top hit containing word(s) in KST D : 33.33%

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Percentage of word pairs in SB yielding a top hit containing word(s) in KST D : 70.34%

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Percentage of "control" words in SB yielding a top hit containing word(s) in KST D : 3.33%

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Percentage of "control" word pairs in SB yielding a top hit containing word(s) in KST D : 24.83%

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Example keyword pairs from SB returning a top hit containing a word in KST D :10

Keywords

URL of Top Hit

Sensitive Word

in Top Hit

transmit, infected

HIV

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/ insects/aids.htm

transmit, mucous

Herpes

http://research.uiowa.edu/animal/?get=empheal

transmitting, viruses

Hepatitis B

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/transmission.htm

transmitted, viral

Hepatitis B

http://www.eurosurveillance.org/em/v10n02/1002-226.asp

transmitted, infection

STD

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/sti/

transmitted, disease

STD

http://www.epigee.org/guide/stds.html

infection, mucous

HIV

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/sinusitis.htm

infected, disease

HIV

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1797.html

infected, viral

Cytomegalovirus

http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec17/ch198/ch198a.html

infections, viral

Cytomegalovirus

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/viralinfections.html

virus, disease

Cytomegalovirus

http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/C02.html

Figure 3:

Summary of experiments to identify keywords enabling STD inferences.