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Evaluation of Preprocessing Techniques for Chief Complaint Classification
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The Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance system collects chief complaints as free text and uses a naïve Bayesian classifier called CoCo to classify the complaints into syndromic categories. CoCo 3.0 has been trained on 28,990 manually clas-… read more… clas-sified chief complaints. The free text chief com-plaints are challenging to work with, due to problems … errors. Failure to correct these word variations may result in missed cases, thereby decreasing sensitivity … Constitutional 0.47 0.57 0.99 0.98 Gastrointestinal 0.70 0.67 0.99 0.99 Hemorrhagic 0.65 0.68 0.99 0.99 …