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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.
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Lu, HM. et al. (2007). Chinese Chief Complaint Classification for Syndromic Surveillance. In: Zeng, D., et al. Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance. BioSurveillance 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4506. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72608-1_2
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