Mining of textual health information from reddit: analysis of chronic diseases with extracted entities and their relations

Foufi, Vasiliki; Timakum, Tatsawan; Gaudet-Blavignac, Christophe; Lovis, Christian; Song, Min

doi:10.2196/12876

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English

Mining of textual health information from reddit: analysis of chronic diseases with extracted entities and their relations

ContributorsFoufi, Vasiliki; Timakum, Tatsawan; Gaudet-Blavignac, Christophe

; Lovis, Christian

; Song, Min

Published inJournal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 21, no. 6, e12876

Publication date2019

Abstract

Social media platforms constitute a rich data source for natural language processing tasks such as named entity recognition, relation extraction, and sentiment analysis. In particular, social media platforms about health provide a different insight into patient's experiences with diseases and treatment than those found in the scientific literature.

Keywords

Chronic disease
Data mining
Social media

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de radiologie et informatique médicale

Research groups

Interfaces Homme-machine en milieu clinique (610)

Funding

Autre - University of Geneva and Yonsei University Joint Seed Funding

Citation (ISO format)

FOUFI, Vasiliki et al. Mining of textual health information from reddit: analysis of chronic diseases with extracted entities and their relations. In: Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2019, vol. 21, n° 6, p. e12876. doi: 10.2196/12876

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PID : unige:120375
DOI : 10.2196/12876
PMID : 31199327

Journal ISSN1438-8871

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