Automated vocabulary discovery for geo-parsing online epidemic intelligence

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Keller, Mikaela ^a,b   Freifeld, Clark C ^a   Brownstein, John S ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DISCOVERY; AUTOMATED SURVEILLANCE; CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE; EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS; SUBSTANTIAL CAPACITY;

MONITORING; NETWORK SECURITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AUTOMATION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BOOK; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; REFERENCE DATABASE; ANIMAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INTERNET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 71549166324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-385     Document Type: Article

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