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Content Analysis of Tobacco-related Twitter Posts
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Vast amounts of free, real-time, localizable Twitter data offer new possibilities for public health workers to identify trends and attitudes that more traditional surveillance methods may not capture, particu- larly in emerging areas of public… read more… regulation and public information remain sparse, despite con- troversial health effects. Ubiquitous online marketing … regulation and public information remain sparse, despite con- troversial health effects. Ubiquitous online marketing … -
Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance
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We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more… language processing system for real-time surveillance WW Chapman, M Conway, JN Dowling, F-C Tsui, Q Li, LM … Journal 2011, 4:s68. doi: 10.3134/ehtj.10.068 & 2011 WW Chapman et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 7 challenges are caused less by NLP … -
Developing an application ontology for mining clinical reports: the extended syndromic surveillance ontology
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Ontologies representing knowledge from the public health and surveillance domains currently exist. However, they focus on infectious diseases (infectious disease ontology), reportable diseases (PHSkbFretired) and internet surveillance… read more… Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: michaelambroseconway@gmail.com Objective To develop an application ontologyFthe … Conway et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 15 radiology finding). Further, these … Health Threats Journal M Conway et al. 2011, 4:s73 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 16 …