%0 Journal Article %T Recent Advances in Using Natural Language Processing to Address Public Health Research Questions Using Social Media and ConsumerGenerated Data %A Mengke Hu %A Mike Conway %A Wendy W. Chapman %J Archive of "Yearbook of Medical Informatics". %D 2019 %R 10.1055/s-0039-1677918 %X Objective : We present a narrative review of recent work on the utilisation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the analysis of social media (including online health communities) specifically for public health applications %K Natural Language Processing %K text mining %K social media %K public health %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6697505/