Ebola data from the internet: An opportunity for syndromic surveillance or a news event?

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 2015-May, Issue , 2015, Pages 115-119

  Yom Tov, Elad ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; Query logs; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VIRUSES; DISEASES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MONITORING; NETWORK SECURITY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRUSES;

EBOLA; INTERNET DATA; MAINSTREAM MEDIA; NEWS ARTICLES; QUERY LOGS; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE; TEMPORAL PATTERN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84945936407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2750511.2750512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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