Examining a sentiment algorithm on session patient records in an eating disorder treatment setting: a preliminary study

Discussion/conclusionThe automated sentiment analysis performed worse in discerning sentiment from session patient records compared to human raters and cannot be used within practice in its current state if the benchmark is considered adequate enough. Nevertheless, the automated sentiment analysis does show potential in extracting sentiment from session records. The automated analysis should be further developed by including context-specific ED words, and a more solid benchmark, such as patients’ own mood, should be established to compare the performance of the automated analysis to.

Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - March 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research