Twitter mining for fine-grained syndromic surveillance

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 153-163

  Velardi, Paola ^a   Stilo, Giovanni ^a   Tozzi, Alberto E ^b   Gesualdo, Francesco ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Micro blog mining; Patient's language learning; Syndromic surveillance; Terminology clustering; Twitter mining

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; HEALTH; INTERNET; MONITORING; NETWORK SECURITY; TERMINOLOGY;

ALGORITHM'S PERFORMANCE; LANGUAGE LEARNING; MICRO-BLOG; MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; WEB SEARCH BEHAVIOR;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA MINING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE; PROCEDURES; WEB BROWSER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SYNDROME; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84904296459     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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