Towards cross-lingual alerting for bursty epidemic events

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Collier, Nigel ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 84864722166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-2-S5-S10     Document Type: Article

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