Developing a disease outbreak event corpus

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Conway, Mike ^a   Kawazoe, Ai ^b   Chanlekha, Hutchatai ^a   Collier, Nigel ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b TSUDA COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biosurveillance; Corpora; Disease outbreaks; Information extraction; Natural language processing; Public health informatics; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DOCUMENTATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77957559403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1323     Document Type: Article

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