@inproceedings{f12f981060284ecab503f10cf4d7ae92,
title = "Chinese chief complaint classification for syndromic surveillance",
abstract = "There is a critical need for the development of chief complaint (CC) classification systems capable of processing non-English CCs as syndromic surveillance is being increasingly practiced around the world. In this paper, we report on an ongoing effort to develop a Chinese CC classification system based on the analysis of Chinese CCs collected from hospitals in Taiwan. We found that Chinese CCs contain important symptom-related information and provide a valid source of information for syndromic surveillance. Our technical approach consists of two key steps: (a) mapping Chinese CCs to English CCs using a mutual information-based mapping method, and (b) reusing existing English CC classification systems to process translated Chinese CCs. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this proposed approach through a preliminary evaluation study using a real-world dataset.",
keywords = "Chinese chief complaints, Medical ontology, Multilingual chief complaint classification, Mutual information, Syndromic surveillance, UMLS",
author = "Lu, {Hsin Min} and King, {Chwan Chuen} and Wu, {Tsung Shu} and Shih, {Fuh Yuan} and Hsiao, {Jin Yi} and Daniel Zeng and Hsinchun Chen",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Heather O'Brien for managing the crop comparison trial and John Anderson for providing access to various crops at the Crop & Food Research Pukekohe Research Centre. The light trap study was initiated by M. G. Hill and Doug Allan who, together with G. R Walker and Tim Herman, sorted and identified the moths. We are grateful to the many helpers at the Pukekohe Research Centre who serviced the light trap. John Dugdale confirmed the identity of reference specimens and provided ongoing advice. Nicholas Martin and Andrew Wallace commented on the manuscript and statistical analysis. The research was funded by DSIR and the collation of data and preparation of this paper were funded as part of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology contract no. C02X0501.; 2nd NSF BioSurveillance Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007 ; Conference date: 22-05-2007 Through 22-05-2007",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-72608-1_2",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783540726074",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
pages = "11--22",
booktitle = "Intelligence and Security Informatics",
}