Yi-Jie Huang, Chu-Hsien Su, Yi-Chun Chang, Tseng-Hsin Ting, Tzu-Yuan Fu, Rou-Min Wang, Hong-Jie Dai, Yung-Chun Chang, Jitendra Jonnagaddala, Wen- Lian Hsu

Abstract

The increasing popularity of social media lead users to share enormous information on the internet. This information has various application like, it can be used to develop models to understand or predict user behavior on social media platforms. For example, few online retailers have studied the shopping patterns to predict shopper’s pregnancy stage. Another interesting application is to use the social media platforms to analyze users’ health-related information. In this study, we developed a tree kernel-based model to classify tweets conveying pregnancy related information using this corpus. The developed pregnancy classification model achieved an accuracy of 0.847 and an F-score of 0.565. A new corpus from popular social media platform Twitter was developed for the purpose of this study. In future, we would like to improve this corpus by reducing noise such as retweets.

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