Identifying Potential Lyme Disease Cases Using Self-Reported Worldwide Tweets: Deep Learning Modeling Approach Enhanced With Sentimental Words Through Emojis

TitleIdentifying Potential Lyme Disease Cases Using Self-Reported Worldwide Tweets: Deep Learning Modeling Approach Enhanced With Sentimental Words Through Emojis
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2023
JournalJ Med Internet Res.
Volume25
Start Pagee47014
Date Published10/2023
AuthorsLaison EKE, Ibrahim MH, Boligarla S, Li J, Mahadevan R, Ng A, Muthuramalingam V, Lee WY, Yin Y, Nasri BR
KeywordsBERT, Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, emojis, Lyme disease, machine learning, natural language processing, Twitter
Abstract

The study highlights the robustness of BERTweet and DistilBERT as classifiers for potential cases of Lyme disease from self-reported data. The results demonstrated that emojis are effective for enrichment, thereby improving the accuracy of tweet embeddings and the performance of classifiers. Specifically, emojis reflecting sadness, empathy, and encouragement can reduce false negatives.

URLhttps://www.jmir.org/2023//e47014/