Sentiment analysis in medical settings: New opportunities and challenges

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Highlights:

• Medical sentiment concerns patient health status, medical conditions or treatments.

• It occurs in multiple facets.

• Medical sentiment analysis has many applications even for clinical documents.

• Linguistic and content peculiarities require a domain-specific sentiment source.

• Implicit sentiment needs to be considered.

摘要

Highlights•Medical sentiment concerns patient health status, medical conditions or treatments.•It occurs in multiple facets.•Medical sentiment analysis has many applications even for clinical documents.•Linguistic and content peculiarities require a domain-specific sentiment source.•Implicit sentiment needs to be considered.

论文关键词:Sentiment analysis,Clinical text mining,Medical language processing,Health status analysis

论文评审过程:Received 2 September 2014, Revised 18 March 2015, Accepted 25 March 2015, Available online 1 May 2015, Version of Record 31 May 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2015.03.006