Abstract
For a long time, diabetes and obesity have been considered a menace only in developed countries. Nevertheless, the proliferation of unhealthy habits, such as fast-food chains and sedentary lifestyles, have caused diabetes and obesity to spread worldwide causing many and costly complications. Since citizens use of the Internet to search, learn, and share their daily personal experiences, the social networks have become popular data-sources that facilitate a deeper understanding of public health concerns. However, the exploitation of this data requires labelled resources and examples; however, as far as our knowledge, these resources do not exist in Spanish. Consequently, (1) we compile a balanced multi-class corpus with tweets regarding diabetes and obesity written in Spanish in Central-America; and, (2) we use the aforementioned corpus to train and test a machine-learning classifier capable of determining whether the texts related to diabetes or obesity are positive, negative, or neutral. The experimental results show that the best result was obtained through the Bag of Words model with an accuracy of 84.30% with the LIBLinear library. As a final contribution, the compiled corpus is released.
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This work has been supported by the Spanish National Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER/ERDF) through project KBS4FIA (TIN2016-76323-R).
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Medina-Moreira, J., García-Díaz, J.A., Apolinardo-Arzube, O., Luna-Aveiga, H., Valencia-García, R. (2019). Mining Twitter for Measuring Social Perception Towards Diabetes and Obesity in Central America. In: Valencia-García, R., Alcaraz-Mármol, G., Del Cioppo-Morstadt, J., Vera-Lucio, N., Bucaram-Leverone, M. (eds) Technologies and Innovation. CITI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34989-9_7
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