Evaluation of the system of private veterinary veterinarians, health representatives of veterinary products and health professionals in the State of Mato Grosso in relation to the epidemiological surveillance system for Foot-and-Mouth Disease

• Grant number: 22/13911-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2023
• End date: December 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Epidemiology
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Ferreira
• Grantee: Helena Martos Romboli
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project aims to use artificial intelligence tools to perform sentiment analysis of producers and veterinarians in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, in relation to its role in passive surveillance of foot-and-mouth disease and the role of the state's official veterinary service. The analyses will be processed from interviews conducted in 2020. BERTimbau will be used, which is a BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) model trained for the Portuguese language.