Examining patterns of influenza vaccination in social media

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-17-01 - WS-17-15, Issue , 2017, Pages 542-546

  Huang, Xiaolei ^a   Smith, Michael C ^b   Paul, Michael J ^a   Ryzhkov, Dmytro ^a   Quinn, Sandra C ^c   Broniatowski, David A ^b   Dredze, Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; DEEP LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VACCINES;

BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LOW SENSITIVITY; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES; SOCIAL MEDIA; THREE DIMENSIONS; UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 85027695856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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