Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 13, No 3: March 2019

Snake species identification by using natural language processing

Nur Liyana Izzati Rusli (Universiti Malaysia Perlis)
Amiza Amir (Universiti Malaysia Perlis)
Nik Adilah Hanin Zahri (Universiti Malaysia Perlis)
R. Badlishah Ahmad (Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA))



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Mar 2019

Abstract

The paper presents the snake species identification by using natural language processing. It aims to help medical professionals in predicting the snake species for snake-bite treatments based on the patient’s description of the snake. The decision in suitable anti-venom critically depends on the type of snake species. Wrong anti-venom may result in severe morbidity and mortality. This research investigates the human perception and the selection of words in describing a snake based on their visual view. The descriptions were presented in unstructured text, and the NLP processing involves pre-processing, feature extraction and classification. Four machine learning algorithms (naïve Bayes, k-Nearest Neighbour, Support Vector Machine, and Decision Trees J48) were used during training and classification. Our results show that J48 algorithm obtained the highest classification accuracy of 71.6% correct prediction for the NLP-Snake data set with high precision and recall.

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