Title
Clustering and topic modeling over tweets: A comparison over a health dataset
Date Issued
01 November 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Twitter became the most popular form of social interactions in the healthcare domain. Thus, various teams have evaluated Twitter as an additional source where patients share information about their healthcare with the potential goal to improve their outcomes. Several existing topic modeling and document clustering applications have been adapted to assess tweets showing that the performances of the applications are negatively affected due to the nature and characteristics of tweets. Moreover, Twitter health research has become difficult to measure because of the absence of comparisons between the existing applications. In this paper, we perform an evaluation based on internal indexes of different topic modeling and document clustering applications over two Twitter health-related datasets. Our results show that Online Twitter LDA and Gibbs LDA get a better performance for extracting topics and grouping tweets. We want to provide health practitioners this comparison to select the most suitable application for their tasks.
Start page
1544
End page
1547
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación Bioinformática
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084332074
Source
Proceedings - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2019
ISSN of the container
9781728118673
Conference
Proceedings - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2019
Sponsor(s)
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01CA183962. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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