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Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue
Shihao Yang, S. C. Kou, Fred Lu +3
Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that threatens more than half of the world's population. Despite being endemic to over 100 countries, government-led efforts and mechanisms to ti…
Temporal Topic Modeling to Assess Associations between News Trends and Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Saurav Ghosh, Prithwish Chakraborty, Elaine O. Nsoesie +4
In retrospective assessments, internet news reports have been shown to capture early reports of unknown infectious disease transmission prior to official laboratory confirmation. I…
Characterizing Diseases from Unstructured Text: A Vocabulary Driven Word2vec Approach
Saurav Ghosh, Prithwish Chakraborty, Emily Cohn +2
Traditional disease surveillance can be augmented with a wide variety of real-time sources such as, news and social media. However, these sources are in general unstructured and, c…