Background Internet access and usage has changed how people seek and report health
information. Meanwhile, infectious diseases continue to threaten humanity. The analysis of …

(57) ABSTRACT A system and method involves detecting operational Social disruptive
events on a global scale, assigning disease event staging and warnings to express data in …

(57) ABSTRACT A system and method involves detecting operational Social disruptive
events on a global scale, assigning disease event staging and warnings to express data in …

PURPOSE: Early detection of infectious disease outbreaks is crucial to protecting the public
health of a society. Online news articles provide timely information on disease outbreaks …

A system and method involves detecting operational social disruptive events on a global
scale, assigning disease or non-disease event staging and warnings to express data in …

Objective: This paper presents a model designed to enable rapid detection and assessment
of biological threats that may require swift intervention by the international public health …

The amount of textual information published on the Internet is considered to be in billions of
web pages, blog posts, comments, social media updates and others. Analyzing such …

A system and method involves detecting operational social disruptive events on a global
scale, assigning disease event staging and warnings to express data in more simplistic …

The MiTAP system was developed as an experimental prototype using human language
technologies for the monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks. The system provides timely …

The MiTAP prototype for SARS detection uses human language technology for detecting,
monitoring, and analyzing potential indicators of infectious disease outbreaks and reasoning …