Sentiment Analysis on Drug Reviews Using Diverse Classification Techniques

Free text reviews are abundantly distributed over the internet among the standard population of the world. Although online doctors were consulted during the pandemic, many drugs are taken without prescription by ordinary people. Reviews are distributed about the medicines through online feeds, posts and blogs, which are merely helpful in identifying the side effects and their adverse reactions in combination with another drug or standalone adverse reactions. Spelling mistakes, jargon and short names are normalized throughout the medical terminologies using Natural language processing (NLP) and RxNorm from the reviews extracted from these sources. The concept of Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) is used to mine the association rules for the drug interactions when used in conjugation with another drug, and the idea of Adaptive Fuzzy logic neural networks is used to validate the results of association rules derived from the BERT. Inconsistencies identified by the regulations generated were rejected efficiently by the Support vector machines (SVM), Radial Basis Function (RBF)and the system shows 60.11 percentage of accuracy with 10 cross-fold validation, whereas the results are equivalent to the accuracy obtained using SVM with RBF kernel. The data set is reduced from its dimension using Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) by applying the mining process and BERT on two drugs, namely “Azithromycin” in conjugation with Buprenorphine has Type ‘A’ side effects, and Prozac in conjugation with Metronidazole shows different side effects. Deplin and Zoloft give very positive symptoms and are independent of dosage interactions.