Background Internet provides different tools for communicating with patients, such as social
media (eg, Twitter) and email platforms. These platforms provided new data sources to shed …

Event tracking literature based on Twitter does not have a state-of-the-art. What it does have
is a plethora of manual evaluation methodologies and inventive automatic alternatives …

Social media has now become the de facto information source on real world events. The
challenge, however, due to the high volume and velocity nature of social media streams, is …

Social networks exhibit interactions that lead to event changes in their communities. It is
imperative to track community events to understand an extensive social network. Recently …

Word embeddings are a form of distributional semantics increasingly popular for
investigating lexical semantic change. However, typical training algorithms are probabilistic …

Event-based surveillance systems are at the crossroads of human and animal (and plant
and ecosystem) health, epidemiology, statistics, and informatics. Thus, their deployment …

Epidemic intelligence aims to detect, investigate and monitor potential health threats while
relying on formal (eg official health authorities) and informal (eg media) information sources …

During the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, the public used Weibo to acquire information,
express emotions, and seek help at a historic and unprecedented scale. This situational …

Semantics is the study of meaning and here we explore it through three major
representations: brain, image and text. Researchers in the past have performed various …

The research aim is a comparative study of using different word co-occurrence sizes as the
two word co-occurrence and the N word co-occurrence on verb phrases to extract disease …