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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 … clas- sified chief complaints. The free text chief com- plaints are challenging to work with, due to problems … is a statistical classifier, CoCo was already trained to cor- rectly classify the misspellings and abbreviations in … -
Chief Complaint Preprocessing Evaluated on Statistical and Non-Statistical Classifiers
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To determine whether preprocessing chief complaints before automatically classifying them into syndromic categories improves classification performance.… N. Dowling, MD, MS1, Debbie Travers, PhD, RN2, Gregory F. Coo- per, MD, PhD1, Wendy W. Chapman, PhD1 Department of …