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Standardization to aid interoperability between NLP system
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There are a number of Natural Language Processing (NLP) annotation and Information Extraction (IE) systems and platforms that have been successfully used within the medical domain. Although these groups share components of their systems, there… read more… Indianapolis, IN, USA; and 11NLM, Bethesda, MD, USA E-mail: guy.divita@hsc.utah.edu Objective The Consortium for … -
Real-time, reusable, dynamic public health surveillance
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The resources available in most public health departments are limited. Access to trained technical personnel and stateof-the-art computing resources are also lacking. Customizable off-the-shelf systems contribute only to creation of information… read more… Informatics, University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA E-mail: Parsa.Mirhaji@uth.tmc.edu Objective This paper … -
Samos: a community-driven open-access prediction market system
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Prediction markets are a type of futures market in which users trade shares that pay off if the event to which they are connected occurs. They are used to aggregate knowledge on a large scale, as the prices of the various contracts can be… read more… Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA E-mail: james-paton@uiowa.edu Objective This poster presents a … -
The use of Craigslist posts for risk behavior and STI surveillance
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The rise and associated risks of using the internet to find sexual partners among men who have sex with men (MSM) has been noted by many researchers.1,2 The anonymity and relative ease of finding partners on the internet has facilitated casual… read more… Research Group, University of Iowa, Iowa, IA, USA E-mail: jason-fries@uiowa.edu Objective This paper describes a … -
A model for flu outbreak surveillance that describes the time lag for data reporting from the first presentation of a case to diagnosis
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Reporting notifiable conditions to public health authorities by health-care providers and laboratories is fundamental to the prevention, control, and monitoring of population-based disease. To successfully develop community… read more… University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA E-mail: rgamache@regenstrief.org Objective This poster will … -
A prediction market for H5N1 influenza compared with statistical forecasting model
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Predictionmarkets have been successfully used to forecast future events in other fields. We adapted this method to provide estimates of the likelihood of H5N1 influenza related events. Objective The purpose… read more… Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA E-mail: ansontaiyat-ho@uiowa.edu Objective The purpose of this … -
Operation of the evacuation site surveillance for the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011
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In 2011, March 11th, the big earthquake attacked eastern Japan followed by huge tsunami and nuclear plant accident. Consequently a lot of people could not help living in evacuation sites. Since those evaluation sites have high density of population… read more… Earthquake; evacuation site; disaster *Yasushi Ohkusa E-mail: ohkusa@nih.go.jp (page number not for citation … -
Operation of the evacuation site surveillance for the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011
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In 2011, March 11th, the big earthquake attacked eastern Japan, and forced a lot of people to live in evacuation sites. Since those evaluation sites have high density of population and sanitary condition was poor in these sites, outbreaks of… read more… Earthquake; evacuation site; disaster *Yasushi Ohkusa E-mail: ohkusa@nih.go.jp (page number not for citation …