Structuring Healthcare Practitioners Profiles and Documents with UPR Algorithms

In order to improve the communication and the cooperation among the personnel operating in the local healthcare area ASUR ZONA Territoriale 7 we are developing a knowledge management platform for healthcare practictioners. Actually the platform comprehends a tool for the automatic annotation of forum messages and a service for the generation of networks of practice. Both the systems are based on a knowledge acquisition module that analyses the textual content of messages and documents to trace the profiles of practictioners. The representations of messages and profiles can be categorized by unsupervised pattern recognition algorithms. These algorithms are capable to set the optimal number of categories, requiring only the choice of a suitable similarity function and a structural criterion