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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… HealthMap ( www.healthmap.org ) is a freely accessible, automated … knowledge encoded in a gazetteer. BACKGROUND HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated … HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated … -
OutbreakMD: tracking and identifying disease outbreaks in post-earthquake Haiti
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HealthMap is a real-time disease epidemic intelligence tracking and visualization system that collects information from general news media, individual first-hand reports and public health sources around the world. Gaps in this effort clearly occur… read more… Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA E-mail: chunara@gmail.com Objective OutbreakMD is a mobile Web application that … Chunara et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 5 even when no network connection is … Health Threats Journal R Chunara et al. 2011, 4:s12 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 6 … -
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… about emerging diseases.(3) Figure 1. Screenshot of www.HealthMap.org RESULTS Over the evaluation period, …