scholarly journals Epidemic-related sites in covid-19 media reports

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 01-10
Author(s):  
Bin Zhao

Background: Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, China, in early 2020, the Chinese government has formed a mode of information disclosure. More than 400 cities have announced specific location information for newly diagnosed cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia, including residential areas or places of stay. We have established a conditional random field model and a rule-dependent model based on Chinese geographical name elements. Taking Guangdong Province as an example, the identification of named entities and the automatic extraction of epidemic-related sites are carried out. This method will help locate the spread of the epidemic, prevent and control the spread of the epidemic, and gain more time for vaccine clinical trials. Methods: Based on the presentation form of the habitual place or place of stay of the diagnosed cases in the text of the web page, a conditional random field model is established, and a rule-dependent model is established according to the combination rule of the elements of the place words and the place name dictionary composed of provinces, cities and administrative regions. Findings: The results of the analysis based on the conditional random field model and the rule-dependent model show that the location of confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia in Guangdong Province in mid-February is mainly concentrated in Guangzhou,Shenzhen,Zhuhai and Shantou Cities. In Guangzhou, Futian District has more epidemicsites and Huangpu and Conghua District have fewer epidemic sites. Government officials in Guangzhou City should pay attention to Futian District. Interpretation: Governments at all levels in Guangzhou Province have intervened to control the epidemic through various means in mid-February. According to the results of the model analysis, we believe that the administrative regions with more diagnosed locations should focus on and take measures such as blockades and control of personnel flow to control the disease in those administrative regions to avoid affecting other adjacent administrative regions.

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yibo Li ◽  
Yuxiang Zhang ◽  
Huiyu Zhu ◽  
Rongxin Yan ◽  
Yuanyuan Liu ◽  
...  

Acoustic emission (AE) technique is often used to detect inaccessible area of large storage tank floor with AE sensors placed outside the tank. For tanks with fixed roofs, the drop-back signals caused by condensation mix with corrosion signals from the tank floor and interfere with the online AE inspection. The drop-back signals are very difficult to filter out using conventional methods. To solve this problem, a novel AE inner detector, which works inside the storage tank, is adopted and a pattern recognition algorithm based on CRF (Conditional Random Field) model is presented. The algorithm is applied to differentiate the corrosion signals from interference signals, especially drop-back signals caused by condensation. Q235 steel corrosion signals and drop-signals were collected both in laboratory and in field site, and seven typical AE features based on hits and frequency are extracted and selected by mRMR (Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance) for pattern recognition. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, the recognition result of CRF model was compared with BP (Back Propagation), SVM (Support Vector Machine), and HMM (Hidden Markov Model). The results show that training speed, accuracy, and ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) results of the CRF model outperform other methods.


2015 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 532-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Padraig Corcoran ◽  
Peter Mooney ◽  
Michela Bertolotto

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
Morihiro Hayashida ◽  
Noriyuki Okada ◽  
Mayumi Kamada ◽  
Hitoshi Koyano

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