Eliciting disease data from Wikipedia articles

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-15-19, Issue , 2015, Pages 26-33

  Fairchild, Geoffrey ^a   Del Valle, Sara Y ^a   De Silva, Lalindra ^b   Segre, Alberto M ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; NETWORK SECURITY; OPEN SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; VIRUSES;

DATA REPOSITORIES; DISEASE MONITORING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGING DISEASE; GROUND TRUTH DATA; REPOSITORY SYSTEMS; WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES;

DISEASES;

EID: 84964632268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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