A robust and scalable framework for detecting self-reported illness from twitter

2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 303-308

  Khan, Muhammad Asif Hossain ^a   Iwai, Masayuki ^b   Sezaki, Kaoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collective intelligence; Epidemic intelligence; Infodemiology; Short text classification; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE; INFODEMIOLOGY; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84872049030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379425     Document Type: Conference Paper

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