BACKGROUND Postpartum depression (PPD) is the most common medical problem among new mothers that can have a negative impact on infant health. Traditional treatments are often difficult for low-income mothers to complete, particularly given the numerous barriers families face. OBJECTIVE Among low-income, primarily racial, and ethnic minority mothers with postpartum depression, our aim was to e...

BACKGROUND Drinking of alcohol among university students is a global phenomenon; heavy episodic drinking is accepted despite several potential negative consequences. There is emerging evidence that short message service (SMS) text messaging interventions are effective to promote behavior change among students. However, it is still unclear how effectiveness can be optimized through intervention ...

In case of emergencies (e.g., earthquakes, flooding), rapid responses are needed in order to address victims’ requests for help. Social media used around crises involves self-organizing behavior that can produce accurate results, often in advance of official communications. This allows affected population to send tweets or text messages, and hence, make them heard. The ability to classify tweet...

Regardless of language, the standard character set for text messages (SMS) and many other social media platforms is the Roman alphabet. There are romanization conventions for some character sets, but they are used inconsistently in informal text, such as SMS. In this work, we convert informal, romanized Urdu messages into the native Arabic script and normalize non-standard SMS language. Doing s...

In case of emergencies (e.g., earthquakes, flooding), rapid responses are needed in order to address victims’ requests for help. Hence, the ability to classify tweets and text messages automatically, together with the ability to deliver the relevant information to the appropriate personnel are essential for enabling the personnel to timely and efficiently work to address the most urgent needs, ...

BACKGROUND Mobile phone short message service (SMS) text messaging, has the potential to serve as an intervention medium to promote sustainability of weight loss that can be easily and affordably used by clinicians and consumers. OBJECTIVE To develop theoretically driven weight loss sustaining text messages and pilot an mHealth SMS text messaging intervention to promote sustaining recent weig...

We describe a multiclass text classification system for formatted text messages contained in the Rich Text Format fields of a structured database of military documents. This system uses a Part-Of–Speech tagger and a RuleBased Classifier to classify 80 different types of formatted messages.

Poor adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is a major hindrance to the reduction of mortality and morbidity due to HIV. This qualitative study used focus groups to explore the views and experiences of HIV patients on HAART with adherence reminders, especially the text message (SMS [short message service]). The ethnographic data obtained were used to design a clinical trial t...