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ArticleDecision support systems2009

Automatic online news monitoring and classification for syndromic surveillance.

Yulei Zhang, Yan Dang, Hsinchun Chen, Mark Thurmond, Cathy Larson

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Article in Decision support systems, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Redefining syndromic surveillance.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2011
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Yulei ZhangArtificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Yan DangArtificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Hsinchun ChenArtificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Mark ThurmondFMD Lab, Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS), University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Cathy LarsonArtificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Syndromic surveillance can play an important role in protecting the public's health against infectious diseases. Infectious disease outbreaks can have a devastating effect on society as well as the economy, and global awareness is therefore critical to protecting against major outbreaks. By monitoring online news sources and developing an accurate news classification system for syndromic surveillance, public health personnel can be apprised of outbreaks and potential outbreak situations. In this study, we have developed a framework for automatic online news monitoring and classification for syndromic surveillance. The framework is unique and none of the techniques adopted in this study have been previously used in the context of syndromic surveillance on infectious diseases. In recent classification experiments, we compared the performance of different feature subsets on different machine learning algorithms. The results showed that the combined feature subsets including Bag of Words, Noun Phrases, and Named Entities features outperformed the Bag of Words feature subsets. Furthermore, feature selection improved the performance of feature subsets in online news classification. The highest classification performance was achieved when using SVM upon the selected combination feature subset.

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Feature selectionNews classificationNews monitoringSyndromic surveillance

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PMID32287567
PMCPMC7114309

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