Sentiment Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening in the United States using Twitter

Kai O. Wong, Faith G. Davis, Osmar R. Zaïane, Yutaka Yasui

2016

Abstract

Whether or not U.S. women follow the recommended breast cancer screening guidelines is related to the perceived benefits and harms of the procedure. Twitter is a rich source of subjective information containing individuals’ sentiment towards public health interventions/technologies. Using our modified version of Hutto and Gilbert (2014) sentiment classifier, we described the temporal, geospatial, and thematic patterns of public sentiment towards breast cancer screening with 8 months of tweets (n=64,524) in the U.S. To examine how sentiment was related to screening uptake behaviour, we investigated and identified significant associations between breast cancer screening sentiment (via Twitter) and breast cancer screening uptake (via BRFSS) at the state level.

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Wong K., Davis F., Zaïane O. and Yasui Y. (2016). Sentiment Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening in the United States using Twitter . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-203-5, pages 265-274. DOI: 10.5220/0006047102650274


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@conference{kdir16,
author={Kai O. Wong and Faith G. Davis and Osmar R. Zaïane and Yutaka Yasui},
title={Sentiment Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening in the United States using Twitter},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={265-274},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006047102650274},
isbn={978-989-758-203-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2016)
TI - Sentiment Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening in the United States using Twitter
SN - 978-989-758-203-5
AU - Wong K.
AU - Davis F.
AU - Zaïane O.
AU - Yasui Y.
PY - 2016
SP - 265
EP - 274
DO - 10.5220/0006047102650274