ArticleInternational journal of health geographics2023
Empowering health geography research with location-based social media data: innovative food word expansion and energy density prediction via word embedding and machine learning.
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backgroundThe exponential growth of location-based social media (LBSM) data has ushered in novel prospects for investigating the urban food environment in health geography research. However, previous studies have primarily relied on word dictionaries with a limited number of food words and employed common-sense categorizations to determine the healthiness of those words. To enhance the analysis of the urban food environment using LBSM data, it is crucial to develop a more comprehensive list of food-related words. Within the context, this study delves into the exploration of expanding food-related words along with their associated energy densities.
methodsThis study addresses the aforementioned research gap by introducing a novel methodology for expanding the food-related word dictionary and predicting energy densities. Seed words are generated from official and crowdsourced food composition databases, and new food words are discovered by clustering food words within the word embedding space using the Gaussian mixture model. Machine learning models are employed to predict the energy density classifications of these food words based on their feature vectors. To ensure a thorough exploration of the prediction problem, ten widely used machine learning models are evaluated.
resultsThe approach successfully expands the food-related word dictionary and accurately predicts food energy density (reaching 91.62%.). Through a comparison of the newly expanded dictionary with the initial seed words and an analysis of Yelp reviews in the city of Toronto, we observe significant improvements in identifying food words and gaining a deeper understanding of the food environment.
conclusionsThis study proposes a novel method to expand food-related vocabulary and predict the food energy density based on machine learning and word embedding. This method makes a valuable contribution to building a more comprehensive list of food words that can be used in geography and public health studies by mining geotagged social media data.
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