Using a Recurrent Neural Network Model for Classification of Tweets Conveyed Influenza-related Information

Chen-Kai Wang, Onkar Singh, Zhao-Li Tang, Hong-Jie Dai

Abstract
Traditional disease surveillance systems depend on outpatient reporting and virological test results released by hospitals. These data have valid and accurate information about emerging outbreaks but it’s often not timely. In recent years the exponential growth of users getting connected to social media provides immense knowledge about epidemics by sharing related information. Social media can now flag more immediate concerns related to out-breaks in real time. In this paper we apply the long short-term memory recurrent neural net-work (RNN) architecture to classify tweets conveyed influenza-related information and compare its performance with baseline algorithms including support vector machine (SVM), decision tree, naive Bayes, simple logistics, and naive Bayes multinomial. The developed RNN model achieved an F-score of 0.845 on the MedWeb task test set, which outperforms the F-score of SVM without applying the synthetic minority oversampling technique by 0.08. The F-score of the RNN model is within 1% of the highest score achieved by SVM with oversampling technique.
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W17-5805
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Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Disease Detection using Social Media 2017 (DDDSM-2017)
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November
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Jitendra Jonnagaddala, Hong-Jie Dai, Yung-Chun Chang
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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33–38
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Chen-Kai Wang, Onkar Singh, Zhao-Li Tang, and Hong-Jie Dai. 2017. Using a Recurrent Neural Network Model for Classification of Tweets Conveyed Influenza-related Information. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Disease Detection using Social Media 2017 (DDDSM-2017), pages 33–38, Taipei, Taiwan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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