Making use of social media data in public health

WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 243-246

  Denecke, Kerstin ^a   Dolog, Peter ^b   Smrz, Pavel ^c  

^a L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Epidemic intelligence; Social Web; Webscience

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE; EVENT-BASED; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MULTIMEDIA DATA; POTENTIAL THREATS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL WEB; SUMMARY STATISTIC; WEBSCIENCE;

DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 84861019250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2187980.2188019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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