Sentiment Analysis of Social Media on Childhood Vaccination: Development of an Ontology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although vaccination rates are above the threshold for herd immunity in South Korea, a growing number of parents have expressed concerns about the safety of vaccines. It is important to understand these concerns so that we can maintain high vaccination rates.

Objective

The aim of this study was to develop a childhood vaccination ontology to serve as a framework for collecting and analyzing social data on childhood vaccination and to use this ontology for identifying concerns about and sentiments toward childhood vaccination from social data.

Methods

The domain and scope of the ontology were determined by developing competency questions. We checked if existing ontologies and conceptual frameworks related to vaccination can be reused for the childhood vaccina

SUBMITTER: On J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6592483 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature