Mining Twitter data for potential drug effects

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8346 LNAI, Issue PART 1, 2013, Pages 434-443

  Jiang, Keyuan ^a   Zheng, Yujing ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Drug effect identification; Natural language processing; Pharmacovigilance; Social media mining; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BIG DATUM; DRUG EFFECTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHARMACOVIGILANCE; SOCIAL MEDIA MININGS; TWITTER;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893075973     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-53914-5_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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