Automatic classification for occupation and cause of death strings

Dr Graham Kirby (2014)

Other information: The software uses Apache Mahout machine learning algorithms to classify unseen strings from historical records. It uses a sample of human-classified records to train the machine learning models. The software has been used to classify occupation and cause-of-death strings to the HISCO and ICD-10 coding systems, respectively. This software is open source.

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