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Have Unbalanced Classes? Try Significant Terms

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The words that are significant to a class can be used improve the precision-recall trade off in classification. Using the top significant terms as the vocabulary to drive a classifier yields improved results with a much small sized model for predicting MIMIC-III CCU readmissions from discharge notes

Predicting ICU Readmission from Discharge Notes: Significant Terms

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Querying with high frequency terms improves recall and, the rare terms precision. The significant terms balance both while offering some discriminative capacity among the latent classes the retrieved documents may belong to. The MIMIC-III dataset is studied here in the context of predicting patient readmission from the discharge notes with Elasticsearch driving the significance measures…