UCE-FID: Using Large Unlabeled, Medium Crowdsourced-Labeled, and Small Expert-Labeled Tweets for Foodborne Illness Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01225v1
• Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2023 21:03:23 GMT
• Title: UCE-FID: Using Large Unlabeled, Medium Crowdsourced-Labeled, and Small Expert-Labeled Tweets for Foodborne Illness Detection
• Authors: Ruofan Hu, Dongyu Zhang, Dandan Tao, Huayi Zhang, Hao Feng, and Elke Rundensteiner
• Abstract summary: We propose EGAL, a deep learning framework for foodborne illness detection. EGAL uses small expert-labeled tweets augmented by crowdsourced-labeled and massive unlabeled data. EGAL has the potential to be deployed for real-time analysis of tweet streaming, contributing to foodborne illness outbreak surveillance efforts.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Foodborne illnesses significantly impact public health. Deep learning surveillance applications using social media data aim to detect early warning signals. However, labeling foodborne illness-related tweets for model training requires extensive human resources, making it challenging to collect a sufficient number of high-quality labels for tweets within a limited budget. The severe class imbalance resulting from the scarcity of foodborne illness-related tweets among the vast volume of social media further exacerbates the problem. Classifiers trained on a class-imbalanced dataset are biased towards the majority class, making accurate detection difficult. To overcome these challenges, we propose EGAL, a deep learning framework for foodborne illness detection that uses small expert-labeled tweets augmented by crowdsourced-labeled and massive unlabeled data. Specifically, by leveraging tweets labeled by experts as a reward set, EGAL learns to assign a weight of zero to incorrectly labeled tweets to mitigate their negative influence. Other tweets receive proportionate weights to counter-balance the unbalanced class distribution. Extensive experiments on real-world \textit{TWEET-FID} data show that EGAL outperforms strong baseline models across different settings, including varying expert-labeled set sizes and class imbalance ratios. A case study on a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infection linked to packaged salad greens demonstrates how the trained model captures relevant tweets offering valuable outbreak insights. EGAL, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has the potential to be deployed for real-time analysis of tweet streaming, contributing to foodborne illness outbreak surveillance efforts.

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