Influenza-like illness surveillance on twitter through automated learning of naïve language

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Gesualdo, Francesco ^a   Stilo, Giovanni ^b   Agricola, Eleonora ^a   Gonfiantini, Michaela V ^a   Pandolfi, Elisabetta ^a   Velardi, Paola ^b   Tozzi, Alberto E ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84891813761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082489     Document Type: Article

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