Medical case-driven classification of microblogs: Characteristics and annotation

IHI'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 513-521

  Sofean, Mustafa ^a   Denecke, Kerstin ^b   Stewart, Avaré ^b   Smith, Matthew ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; Social media data analysis; Text classification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; DATA SETS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEATURE SETS; FILTERING METHOD; GOLD STANDARDS; INTELLIGENCE GATHERING; MICRO-BLOG; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEXT CLASSIFICATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84863246262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2110363.2110421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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