Did you really just have a heart attack?: Towards robust detection of personal health mentions in social media

The Web Conference 2018 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2018

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 137-146

  Karisani, Payam ^a   Agichtein, Eugene ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health tracking in social media; Representation learning for text classification; Social media classification

Indexed keywords

DEEP LEARNING; EMBEDDINGS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); USER EXPERIENCE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HEALTH CONDITION; HEALTH MONITORING; LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PERSONAL HEALTH; POPULATION HEALTH; ROBUST DETECTION; STATE OF THE ART; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

HEALTH;

EID: 85066481901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3178876.3186055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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