Sentiment Analysis in the Medical Domain
Kerstin Denecke
May 2023 · Springer Nature
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151
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About this ebook
Sentiment analysis deals with extracting information about opinions, sentiments, and even emotions conveyed by writers towards topics of interest. Medical sentiment analysis refers to the identification and analysis of sentiments or emotions expressed in free-textual documents with a scope on healthcare and medicine. This fascinating problem offers numerous application areas in the domain of medicine, but also research challenges. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the topic. The primary purpose is to provide the necessary background on medical sentiment analysis, ranging from a description of the notions of medical sentiment to use cases that have been considered already and application areas of relevance. Medical sentiment analysis uses natural language processing (NLP), text analysis and machine learning to realise the process of extracting and classifying statements regarding expressed opinion and sentiment. The book offers a comprehensive overview on existingmethods of sentiment analysis applied to healthcare resources or health-related documents. It concludes with open research avenues providing researchers indications which topics still have to be developed in more depth.
About the author
Dr. Kerstin Denecke is an expert in the field of medical informatics. She works as a professor and researcher at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. Her major research interests include artificial intelligence and (clinical) natural language processing in general and more specifically, information extraction, sentiment analysis and conversational agents. Her work concentrates on use cases in the healthcare domain. She completed a doctoral degree at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. She is leading several projects in the field of natural language processing and artificial intelligence and co-chairs the working group on participatory health informatics and social media or the International Medical Informatics Association.
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