Automatic Classification of Complaint Reports about City Park
Abstract
Recently, it has become easy for the growing Goverment 2.0 movement to report complaints. On the other hand, there is a clearly identified and growing delay in responses from the government side due to an overload on government capacity to deal with the increasing number of complaint reports as the movement grows. In this paper, we propose a method of automatically categorizing complaint reports as a first step to reduce the pressure on the government side. We conducted experiments in categorizing the complaint reports. The experimental results showed the following findings: (1) Feature selection is key to improving the accuracy (F-score) of the categorization of complaint reports. The percentage of words that are strongly effective for categorization is about 3.9% of the total of distinct words. (2) Proposed Mutual-Information-based methods outperform a conventional Random-Forestbased method. (3) The city management section seems to classify complaint reports by focusing on demands expressed in the reports. (4) The categorization performance usually high if training data includes various types of categories of data.
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