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A review of automated text classification in event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human, plant, and animal health. Online documents, such as news articles, newsletters, and (micro-) blog entries, are… read more… A H1N1 pandemic. PLoS One. 2011;6:e19467. *Manabu Torii E-mail: manabu.torii@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Table 1. … -
Anticipatory surveillance for mass gatherings: a novel application of mass media surveillance
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Public health and medical research on mass gatherings (MGs) are emerging disciplines. MGs present surveillance challenges quite different from routine outbreak monitoring, including prompt detection of outbreaks of an unusual … read more… University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA E-mail: Sumiko.Mekaru@childrens.harvard.edu Objective To … -
Application of biosurveillance methodology to the 2010 Asian foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks
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Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual, biosurveillance system, which captures and analyzes information from publicly available internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize direct, indirect, and… read more… Biodefense, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA E-mail: reilly@isis.georgetown.edu Objective Our objective is … -
Document classification toward efficient event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human health. Online documents, such as news articles on the Internet, have commonly been the … read more… University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA E-mail: torii@isis.georgetown.edu Objective This paper … -
Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to the 2011 E. coli Outbreak in Germany
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Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual surveillance system which captures and analyzes information from publicly available Internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize indications and warning (I&W) of emerging… read more… 5. www.expatica.com. 6. www.rki.de. *Emily Iarocci E-mail: iarocci@isis.georgetown.edu (page number not for … -
Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to Disease Emergence in Isolated Regions
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Argus is an event-based surveillance system which captures information from publicly available Internet media in multiple languages. The information is contextualized and indications and warning (I&W) of disease are identified. Reports are… read more… &id�40987&Itemid�56. *Wai-Ling Mui E-mail: mui@isis.georgetown.edu (page number not for citation …