Published on in Vol 8, No 5 (2020): May

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/17813, first published .
Determining the Topic Evolution and Sentiment Polarity for Albinism in a Chinese Online Health Community: Machine Learning and Social Network Analysis

Determining the Topic Evolution and Sentiment Polarity for Albinism in a Chinese Online Health Community: Machine Learning and Social Network Analysis

Determining the Topic Evolution and Sentiment Polarity for Albinism in a Chinese Online Health Community: Machine Learning and Social Network Analysis

Qiqing Bi   1, 2, 3 * , MS ;   Lining Shen   1, 2, 3 * , PhD ;   Richard Evans   4 , PhD ;   Zhiguo Zhang   1, 2 , PhD ;   Shimin Wang   1, 2 , MS ;   Wei Dai   1 , MS ;   Cui Liu   1 , MS

1 School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China

2 Hubei Provincial Research Center for Health Technology Assessment, Wuhan, China

3 Institute of Smart Health, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China

4 College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Brunel University London, London, United Kingdom

*these authors contributed equally

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