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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… outbreaks, retrieved by HealthMap in 2007, is used as the training dataset. The words in the articles are tagged with … The experiments also reveal that providing additional training material improves the performance of the model, …