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Evaluation of Online Media Reports for Global Infectious Disease Intelligence
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While traditional means of surveillance by governments, multi-national agencies, and institutional networks assist in reporting and confirming infectious disease outbreaks, these formal sources of information are limited by their… read more… on outbreaks. Informal resources include discussion sites, online news media, individual and organization … Objective Internet-based resources such as discussion sites and online news sources have become invaluable … OBJECTIVE Internet-based resources such as discussion sites and online news sources have become invaluable sources … -
Expanding a Gazetteer-based Approach for Geo-Parsing Text from Media Reports on Global Disease Outbreaks
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HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated real-time system that monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, and maps online news about emerging diseases. The system performs geographic parsing (“geo-parsing”) of disease… read more… geographic information retrieval. REFERENCES [1] Freifeld CC, Mandl KD, Reis BY, Brownstein JS. 2008. Healthmap: …