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Figurative Usage Detection of Symptom Words to Improve Personal Health Mention Detection
Adith Iyer, Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi +2
Personal health mention detection deals with predicting whether or not a given sentence is a report of a health condition. Past work mentions errors in this prediction when symptom…
A Comparison of Word-based and Context-based Representations for Classification Problems in Health Informatics
Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks +2
Distributed representations of text can be used as features when training a statistical classifier. These representations may be created as a composition of word vectors or as cont…
Survey of Text-based Epidemic Intelligence: A Computational Linguistic Perspective
Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks +2
Epidemic intelligence deals with the detection of disease outbreaks using formal (such as hospital records) and informal sources (such as user-generated text on the web) of informa…