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Analysis of Forum Posts Written by Patients and Health Professionals

Amine Abdaoui, Jérôme Azé, Sandra Bringay, Natalia Grabar, Pascal Poncelet

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Online health fora are increasingly visited by both patients and health professionals. For online fora visitors, posts written by health professionals may be more interesting since the professionals are able to well explain the problems, the symptoms, correct false affirmations and give useful advices, etc.Objective: To automatically distinguish posts written by health professionals from those written by patients.

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Key concepts: Health professionals, Psychology, Health care, Medical education, Medicine, Political science, Law