Health-Related Hot Topic Detection in Online Communities Using Text Clustering

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Lu, Yingjie ^a   Zhang, Pengzhu ^a   Liu, Jingfang ^a   Li, Jia ^a,b   Deng, Shasha ^a  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEXT CLUSTERING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84874033405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056221     Document Type: Article

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