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  • Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification

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    This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance.
    … hand-classified into one of eight categories was used to train both CoCo and the new Maximum Entropy classifier. A … low and highly variable due to the low availability of training data. Epidemiological and clinical assessment from … by CoCo because the word had not been observed in the training set. CONCLUSIONS Maximum Entropy classification …