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Machine learning techniques have been very successful in developing recommendation agents through the analysis of eWOM in the e-commerce context. However, such methods are fairly unexplored in the medical tourism context through the analysis of user-generated content. This research is the first attempt to analyze eWOM in medical tourism websites for tourists\u2019 preferences mining using machine learning techniques. The results of the eWOM analysis revealed that the learning techniques are able to effectively analyze online reviews and accurately predict their preferences for their decision-making process in medical tourism. 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