Detecting and analyzing influenza epidemics with social media in China

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

Volumn 8443 LNAI, Issue PART 1, 2014, Pages 90-101

  Zhang, Fang ^a   Luo, Jun ^a,b   Li, Chao ^a   Wang, Xin ^c   Zhao, Zhongying ^a  

^a SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAWEI NOAH S ARK LAB   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data Mining; Influenza Epidemics; Social Media

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ASSOCIATED FEATURE; INFLUENZA EPIDEMICS; INFORMATION SHARING; PRECISION AND RECALL; REAL-WORLD; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84901282368     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06608-0_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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