Generally, seafarers face a higher risk of illnesses and accidents than land workers. In most
cases, there are no medical professionals on board seagoing vessels, which makes disease
diagnosis even more difficult. When this occurs, onshore doctors may be able to provide
medical advice through telemedicine by receiving better symptomatic and clinical details in
the health abstracts of seafarers. The adoption of text mining techniques can assist in
extracting diagnostic information from clinical texts. We applied lexicon sentimental analysis …