OMG U got flu? Analysis of shared health messages for bio-surveillance

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 714, Issue , 2010, Pages 18-26

  Collier, Nigel ^a   Son, Nguyen Truong ^b   Nguyen, Ngoc Mai ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIGRAMS; CROWDSOURCE; LABORATORY DATUM; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; NAIVE BAYES; REAL TIME; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; SELF-PROTECTIVE; SPEARMAN'S RHO; SUPERVISED CLASSIFIERS; TWITTER POSTS;

PATTERN MATCHING; SEMANTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874270730     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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