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BAND: Biomedical Alert News Dataset
Zihao Fu, Meiru Zhang, Zaiqiao Meng +3
Infectious disease outbreaks continue to pose a significant threat to human health and well-being. To improve disease surveillance and understanding of disease spread, several surv…
Global Health Monitor: A Web-based System for Detecting and Mapping Infectious Diseases
Son Doan, Quoc-Hung Ngo, Ai Kawazoe +1
We present the Global Health Monitor, an online Web-based system for detecting and mapping infectious disease outbreaks that appear in news stories. The system analyzes English new…
An Empirical Study of Sections in Classifying Disease Outbreak Reports
Son Doan, Mike Conway, Nigel Collier
Identifying articles that relate to infectious diseases is a necessary step for any automatic bio-surveillance system that monitors news articles from the Internet. Unlike scientif…
On the Importance of the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Term in Variational Autoencoders for Text Generation
Victor Prokhorov, Ehsan Shareghi, Yingzhen Li +2
Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are known to suffer from learning uninformative latent representation of the input due to issues such as approximated posterior collapse, or entangl…
Generating Knowledge Graph Paths from Textual Definitions using Sequence-to-Sequence Models
Victor Prokhorov, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Nigel Collier
We present a novel method for mapping unrestricted text to knowledge graph entities by framing the task as a sequence-to-sequence problem. Specifically, given the encoded state of…
Unseen Word Representation by Aligning Heterogeneous Lexical Semantic Spaces
Victor Prokhorov, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Dimitri Kartsaklis +2
Word embedding techniques heavily rely on the abundance of training data for individual words. Given the Zipfian distribution of words in natural language texts, a large number of…