Multilingual event extraction for epidemic detection

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 131-143

  Lejeune, Gaël ^a,b   Brixtel, Romain ^a,c   Doucet, Antoine ^a,d   Lucas, Nadine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Early event detection; Epidemic surveillance; Multilingual information access; Poorly endowed languages; Tele epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXTRACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MONITORING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE; EARLY EVENT DETECTION; INFORMATION ACCESS; MULTILINGUAL APPROACH; PRECISION AND RECALL; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES; STRING MATCHING ALGORITHM; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MULTILINGUALISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE;

EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE;

EID: 84943580978     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2015.06.005     Document Type: Article

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