Sentiment analysis in medical settings: New opportunities and challenges

Conclusions Medical sentiment concerns the patient's health status, medical conditions and treatment. Its analysis and extraction from texts has multiple applications, even for clinical narratives that remained so far unconsidered. Given the varying usage and meanings of terms, sentiment analysis from medical documents requires a domain-specific sentiment source and complementary context-dependent features to be able to correctly interpret the implicit sentiment.

Source: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - May 1, 2015 Category: Bioinformatics Source Type: research