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In the previous chapters of this book, an overview was given on use cases that have been considered, on available resources to conduct or develop solutions to analyse medical sentiment. Methods applied to realise medical sentiment analysis were introduced. Sentiment analysis of social media data has become a popular research method to study characteristics of patient communities. It was applied in the context of disease surveillance in times of pandemics. However, it did not yet arrived in daily clinical practice. This raises the question whether medical sentiment analysis is “just” a research topic or could be of practical use for clinical care. This chapter summarises current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of medical sentiment analysis aiming at identifying steps for continuing research in this field.
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Denecke, K. (2023). Medical Sentiment Analysis: Quo Vadis?. In: Sentiment Analysis in the Medical Domain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30187-2_14
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