NLDB 2013: Natural Language Processing and Information Systems pp 417-420 | Cite as
SurveyCoder: A System for Classification of Survey Responses
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Abstract
Survey coding is the process of analyzing text responses to open-ended questions in surveys. We present SurveyCoder, a research prototype which helps the survey analysts to achieve significant automation of the survey coding process. SurveyCoder’s multi-label text classification algorithm makes use of a knowledge base that consists of linguistic resources, historical data, domain specific rules and constraints. Our method is applicable to surveys carried out in different domains.
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Text classification Survey analytics NLPPreview
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