A methodology to enhance spatial understanding of disease outbreak events reported in news articles

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 284-296

  Chanlekha, Hutchatai ^a   Collier, Nigel ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geographical information; Information system; Natural language processing; Public health surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION SYSTEMS; CLASS INFORMATION; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVALUATION STUDY; EVENT CLASSIFICATION; EVENT-BASED; F-SCORE; FEATURE SETS; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GOLD STANDARDS; HARMONIC MEAN; HEURISTIC TECHNIQUES; MACHINE-LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEWS ARTICLES; OPEN MEDIA; PRECISION AND RECALL; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ATTRIBUTE; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MONITORING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MACHINE LEARNING; MASS MEDIUM; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; DATA MINING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; JAPAN; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 77449093910     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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