Text Mining Mental Health Forums - Learning from User Experiences

Elena Davcheva
2018 European Conference on Information Systems  
Mental healthcare today represents a serious global challenge with not enough resources to allow for adequate patient support. As a result, many turn to the Internet for help, where mental health forums have become a rich resource of experiences shared by millions of users. This study applies aspectbased sentiment analysis on mental health forum posts in order to examine user sentiment regarding different mental health treatments. We shed light into the practices used by affected individuals to
more » ... cope with mental issues and generate possible treatment recommendations.
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