Using n-Grams for Syndromic Surveillance in a Turkish Emergency Department Without English Translation: A Feasibility Study.

Sylvia HalászPhilip BrownCem OktayArif Alper CevikIsa KılıçaslanColin GoodallDennis G CochraneThomas R FowlerGuy JacobsonSimon TseJohn R Allegra

Published in: Biomedical informatics insights (2013)

The n-gram method automatically created a CC RESP classifier of the Turkish CCs that performed similarly to the ICD-10 RESP grouping. The n-gram technique has the advantage of systematic, consistent, and rapid deployment as well as language independence.

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