How do we talk about doctors and drugs? Sentiment analysis in forums expressing opinions for medical domain

ConclusionsAlthough opinions about physicians and drugs are written in most cases by non-professional users, reviews about physicians are characterized by the use of an informal language while reviews about drugs are characterized by a combination of informal language with specific terminology (e.g. adverse effects, drug names) with greater lexical diversity, making the task of sentiment analysis difficult.
Source: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Category: Bioinformatics Source Type: research