Text mining of verbal autopsy narratives to extract mortality causes and most prevalent diseases using natural language processing

• Michael Tonderai Mapundu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Tonderai Mapundu, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Eustasius Musenge, Victor Olago, Turgay Celik

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michael.mapundu@wits.ac.za

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2830-0692

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• Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Tonderai Mapundu, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Eustasius Musenge, Victor Olago, Turgay Celik

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Eustasius Musenge ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Tonderai Mapundu, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Eustasius Musenge, Victor Olago, Turgay Celik

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Victor Olago ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Tonderai Mapundu, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Eustasius Musenge, Victor Olago, Turgay Celik

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), National Cancer Registry, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Turgay Celik

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Tonderai Mapundu, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Eustasius Musenge, Victor Olago, Turgay Celik

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wits Institute of Data Science, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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