2 papers
cs.CY2017
Machine Learning for Drug Overdose Surveillance
Daniel B. Neill, William Herlands
We describe two recently proposed machine learning approaches for discovering emerging trends in fatal accidental drug overdoses. The Gaussian Process Subset Scan enables early det…
cs.IR2016
Semantic Scan: Detecting Subtle, Spatially Localized Events in Text Streams
Abhinav Maurya, Kenton Murray, Yandong Liu +3
Early detection and precise characterization of emerging topics in text streams can be highly useful in applications such as timely and targeted public health interventions and dis…