An Empirical Study of Sections in Classifying Disease Outbreak Reports
Identifying articles that relate to infectious diseases is a necessary step for any automatic bio-surveillance system that monitors news articles from the Internet. Unlike scientific articles which are available in a strongly structured form, news articles are usually loosely structured. In this chapter, we investigate the importance of each section and the effect of section weighting on performance of text classification. The experimental results show that (1) classification models using the headline and leading sentence achieve a high performance in terms of F-score compared to other parts of the article; (2) all section with bag-of-word representation (full text) achieves the highest recall; and (3) section weighting information can help to improve accuracy.
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