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New challenges in tobacco surveillance: monitoring the prevalence of electronic cigarettes and hookah use in the United States
Content Type: Webinar
Since the 1990s tobacco control strategies --- at least in the United States and some developed countries --- have had considerable success in reducing the number of new smokers and encouraging existing smokers to quit through the creation of a… read more -
Towards Tracking Opium Related Discussions in Social Media
Content Type: Abstract
In recent years, the use of social media has increased at an unprecedented rate. For example, the popular social media platform Reddit (http://www.reddit.com) had 83 billion page views from over 88,000 active sub-communities (subreddits) in 2015.… read more -
Combining Text Mining and Data Visualization Techniques to Understand Consumer Experiences of Electronic Cigarettes and Hookah in Online Forums
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Since their introduction to the US market in 2007, electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have posed considerable challenges to both public health authorities and government regulators, especially given the debate – in both the scientific world and… read more -
Leveraging Discussions on Reddit for Disease Surveillance
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In recent years, individuals have been using social network sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to discuss health-related topics. These social media platforms consequently became new avenues for research and applications for researchers, for… read more -
Opioid Surveillance using Social Media: How URLs are shared among Reddit members
Content Type: Abstract
Nearly 100 people per day die from opioid overdose in the United States. Further, prescription opioid abuse is assumed to be responsible for a 15-year increase in opioid overdose deaths. However, with increasing use of social media comes increasing… read more -
Evaluating Syndrome Definitions in the Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology
Content Type: Abstract
The Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology (ESSO) is an open source terminological ontology designed to facilitate the text mining of clinical reports in English [1,2]. At the core of ESSO are 279 clinical concepts (for example, fever, confusion,… read more -
A web-based platform to support text mining of clinical reports for public health surveillance
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PyConTextKit is a web-based platform that extracts entities from clinical text and provides relevant metadata - for example, whether the entity is negated or hypothetical - using simple lexical clues occurring in the window of text surrounding the… read more -
Using cKASS to facilitate knowledge authoring and sharing for syndromic surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
Mining text for real-time syndromic surveillance usually requires a comprehensive knowledge base (KB) which contains detailed information about concepts relevant to the domain, such as disease names, symptoms, drugs, and radiology findings. Two such… read more