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Talking Turkish: Using N-Grams for Syndromic Surveillance in a Turkish Emergency Department without the Need for English Translation
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Previously we used an “N-Gram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in English for bioterrorism. The classifier is trained on a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are… read more… Our objective was to apply the N-Gram method to a training set of Turkish ED data to create a Turkish CC … respiratory grouping of ICD9 codes created by the ESSENCE-CDC project. We then used an N- Gram method adapted … -
Sensitivity and Specificity of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome in the Turkish Language
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Previously we developed an “Ngram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in Turkish for bioterrorism. The classifier is developed from a set of ED visits for which both the ICD… read more… grouping of ICD10 codes chosen to be similar to the ESSENCE-CDC RESP ICD9 codes. We then used an Ngram method … AT&T Labs applied to the first 10 months of data as a training set to create a Turkish CC RESP classifier. We next …