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Automatic online news monitoring and classification for syndromic surveillance

Journal

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Volume 47, Issue 4, Pages 508-517

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2009.04.016

Keywords

News classification; News monitoring; Feature selection; Syndromic surveillance

Funding

  1. National Science Foundation [ITR 0428241]

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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. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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