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. 2021 May 25;9(5):e23305. doi: 10.2196/23305

Table 3.

Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) and root-mean-square error (RMSE) for influenza prediction models using different word embedding techniques.

Prediction model PCC (number of keywords) RMSE (number of keywords)

Unsorted Sorted Unsorted Sorted
Word2Vec CBOWa 0.8784 (59) 0.8951 (22) 0.0095 (19) 0.0082 (22)
Word2Vec skip-gram 0.8755 (50) 0.8942 (8) 0.0089 (9) 0.0080 (8)
GloVe 0.8467 (14) 0.8783 (29) 0.0095 (14) 0.0090 (22)
FastText CBOW 0.8845 (42) 0.8986 (34) 0.0095 (11) 0.0090 (34)
FastText skip-gram 0.8676 (86) 0.8679 (10) 0.0095 (87) 0.0090 (10)
Mean 0.8705 (50) 0.8868 (21) 0.0094 (28) 0.0086 (19)

aCBOW: continuous bag-of-words.