An ontology-driven system for detecting global health events

Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 215-222

  Collier, Nigel ^a   Goodwin, Reiko Matsuda ^b   Mccrae, John ^c   Doan, Son ^d   Kawazoe, Ai ^e   Conway, Mike ^f   Kawtrakul, Asanee ^g   Takeuchi, Koichi ^h   Dien, Dinh ⁱ  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TSUDA COLLEGE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^g KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^h OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ Vietnam National University   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; ORIGINAL DESIGN; PUBLIC HEALTH; TEXT MINING; WEB MONITORING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HEALTH; USER INTERFACES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 80053390640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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