2013 AmplifyingtheVoiceofYouthinAfri

• (Melville et al., 2013) ⇒ Prem Melville, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Richard D. Lawrence, James Powell, Moses Mugisha, Sharad Sapra, Rajesh Anandan, and Solomon Assefa. (2013). “Amplifying the Voice of Youth in Africa via Text Analytics.” In: Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. ISBN:978-1-4503-2174-7 doi:10.1145/2487575.2488216

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• Data mining; human factors; information filtering; machine learning; text classification

Abstract

U-report is an open-source SMS platform operated by UNICEF Uganda, designed to give community members a voice on issues that impact them. Data received by the system are either SMS responses to a poll conducted by UNICEF, or unsolicited reports of a problem occurring within the community. There are currently 200,000 U-report participants, and they send up to 10,000 unsolicited text messages a week. The objective of the program in Uganda is to understand the data in real-time, and have issues addressed by the appropriate department in UNICEF in a timely manner. Given the high volume and velocity of the data streams, manual inspection of all messages is no longer sustainable. This paper describes an automated message-understanding and routing system deployed by IBM at UNICEF. We employ recent advances in data mining to get the most out of labeled training data, while incorporating domain knowledge from experts. We discuss the trade-offs, design choices and challenges in applying such techniques in a real-world deployment.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2013 AmplifyingtheVoiceofYouthinAfri	Prem Melville Richard D. Lawrence Vijil Chenthamarakshan James Powell Moses Mugisha Sharad Sapra Rajesh Anandan Solomon Assefa			Amplifying the Voice of Youth in Africa via Text Analytics				10.1145/2487575.2488216		2013