The abundance of text available in social media and health-related forums and blogs have recently attracted the interest of the public health community to use these sources for opinion mining. This book presents a lexicon-based approach to sentiment analysis in the bio-medical domain, i.e., WordNet for Medical Events (WME). This book gives an insight in handling unstructured textual data and converting it to structured machine-processable data in the bio-medical domain.
The readers will discover the following key novelties:
1) development of a bio-medical lexicon: WME expansion and WME enrichment with additional features.;
2) ensemble of machine learning and computational creativity;
3) development of microtext analysis techniques to overcome the inconsistency in social communication.
It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of socially-intelligent human-machine interaction and biomedical text miningThe abundance of text available in social media and health-related forums and blogs have recently attracted the interest of the public health community to use these sources for opinion mining. This book presents a lexicon-based approach to sentiment analysis in the bio-medical domain, i.e., WordNet for Medical Events (WME). This book gives an insight in handling unstructured textual data and converting it to structured machine-processable data in the bio-medical domain.
The readers will discover the following key novelties:
1) development of a bio-medical lexicon: WME expansion and WME enrichment with additional features.;
2) ensemble of machine learning and computational creativity;
3) development of microtext analysis techniques to overcome the inconsistency in social communication.
It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of socially-intelligent human-machine interaction and biomedical text mining
Sentiment Analysis in the Bio-Medical Domain: Techniques, Tools, and Applications

Sentiment Analysis in the Bio-Medical Domain: Techniques, Tools, and Applications
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9783319684680 |
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Publisher: | Springer-Verlag New York, LLC |
Publication date: | 01/23/2018 |
Series: | Socio-Affective Computing , #7 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 3 MB |