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|November 30, 2018

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This study enhances health information analysis by using word embeddings for accurate polarity classification of patient social media posts. It highlights the critical role of objective "polar facts" alongside subjective opinions in understanding health-related content.

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Area of Science:

Computational linguistics
Health informatics
Social media analysis

Background:

Health-related social media generates vast amounts of data.
Accessing and analyzing this information is challenging.
Existing opinion mining methods often use traditional machine learning and bag-of-words approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate various features for classifying patient-authored texts for polarity.
To investigate the significance of "polar facts" in health information analysis.
To improve the accuracy of sentiment analysis in online health discussions.

Main Methods:

Annotated over 3500 posts from online health forums (breast cancer, Crohn's, allergies).
Classified sentences as "experience," "fact," or "opinion," and "positive," "negative," or "neutral."
Trained machine learning models comparing bag-of-words with word embeddings and UMLS concept embeddings.

Main Results:

Word embeddings achieved high accuracy (≈70%) in polarity prediction, outperforming bag-of-words.
Objective "polar facts" are as frequent as subjective opinions/experiences in health data.
Polar facts are crucial for accurate health information polarity classification.

Conclusions:

Word embeddings offer a superior method for health-related text polarity classification.
The inclusion of objective polar facts is essential for comprehensive sentiment analysis of health information.
This research facilitates better access to relevant health data from social media.