Characterizing diseases from unstructured text: A vocabulary driven Word2vec approach

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn 24-28-October-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 1129-1138

  Ghosh, Saurav ^a   Chakraborty, Prithwish ^a   Cohn, Emily ^b   Brownstein, John S ^c   Ramakrishnan, Naren ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dis2Vec; Disease characterization; Domain specific word embeddings; HealthMap; Word2vec

Indexed keywords

TAXONOMIES;

DIS2VEC; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMBEDDINGS; HEALTHMAP; SURVEILLANCE TOOLS; UNSTRUCTURED TEXTS; VECTOR REPRESENTATIONS; WORD2VEC;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84996497464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2983323.2983362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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