Twitter mining using semi-supervised classification for relevance filtering in syndromic surveillance.

We investigate the use of Twitter data to deliver signals for syndromic surveillance in order to assess its ability to augment existing syndromic surveillance efforts and give a better understanding of symptomatic people who do not seek healthcare advice directly. We focus on a specific syndrome-ast...

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Main Authors: Oduwa Edo-Osagie, Gillian Smith, Iain Lake, Obaghe Edeghere, Beatriz De La Iglesia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210689