Evaluation of different machine learning approaches and input text representations for multilingual classification of tweets for disease surveillance in the social web

Abstract Twitter and social media as a whole have great potential as a source of disease surveillance data however the general messiness of tweets presents several challenges for standard information extraction methods. Most deployed systems employ approaches that rely on simple keyword matching and...

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Main Authors: Mark Abraham Magumba, Peter Nabende
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-10-01
Series:Journal of Big Data
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-021-00528-5