Social media as a sensor of air quality and public response in China

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Shiliang ^a   Paul, Michael J ^a   Dredze, Mark ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Data mining; Natural language processing; Public health surveillance; Social media; Text mining

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; DATA MINING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH SURVEY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL MEDIA;

AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; DATA MINING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84929675571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3875     Document Type: Article

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