Cancer stage prediction based on patient online discourse

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 64-71

  Jha, Mukund ^a   Elhadad, Noémie ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING;

BREAST CANCER; CONTENT-BASED FEATURES; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; HEALTH STATUS; MAILING LISTS; NETWORK-BASED; ONLINE BEHAVIOURS; PREDICTION-BASED; STAGE PREDICTION;

DISEASES;

EID: 84889569365     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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