Challenges for signal generation from medical social media data

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 169, Issue , 2011, Pages 639-643

  Dreesman, Johannes ^a   Denecke, Kerstin ^a,b  

^a Niedersachsisches Landesgesundheitsamt   (Germany)

^b L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease Surveillance; Epidemic Intelligence; Signal Generation

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; SIGNAL GENERATION; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; UNSTRUCTURED TEXTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 83055179516     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-806-9-639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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