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Medical Social Media and Its Characteristics

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Medical social media derivatives such as tweets, online forums or drug reviews, can be subject of interest for medical sentiment analysis. Such data is data published by individuals (not necessarily patients, but their relatives, friends and healthcare professionals). While tweets are restricted in their length and are therefore characterised by a specific style of writing which is very concise and full with abbreviations, data from online communities or review sites can be more comprehensive. This chapter describes the various social media text types that have already been used for medical sentiment analysis along with their linguistic and semantic peculiarities.

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    https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api.

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    http://www.wedmd.com.

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    https://www.reddit.com/r/cancer/.

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    http://www.medhelp.org/.

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Denecke, K. (2023). Medical Social Media and Its Characteristics. In: Sentiment Analysis in the Medical Domain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30187-2_3

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