On infectious intestinal disease surveillance using social media content

DH 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Digital Health Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 157-161

  Zou, Bin ^a   Lampos, Vasileios ^a   Gorton, Russell ^b   Cox, Ingemar J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; IID; Infectious intestinal disease; Social media; Twitter; User generated content; Word embeddings

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; MONITORING; SEMANTICS;

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMBEDDINGS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84966605239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2896338.2896372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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