On infectious intestinal disease surveillance using social media content

Bin Zou, Vasileios Lampos, Russell Gorton, Ingemar Johansson Cox

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Abstract

This paper investigates whether infectious intestinal diseases (IIDs) can be detected and quantified using social media content. Experiments are conducted on user-generated data from the microblogging service, Twitter. Evaluation is based on the comparison with the number of IID cases reported by traditional health surveillance methods. We employ a deep learning approach for creating a topical vocabulary, and then apply a regularised linear (Elastic Net) as well as a nonlinear (Gaussian Process) regression function for inference. We show that like previous text regression tasks, the nonlinear approach performs better. In general, our experimental results, both in terms of predictive performance and semantic interpretation, indicate that Twitter data contain a signal that could be strong enough to complement conventional methods for IID surveillance.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelDH '16 : Proceedings of the 2016 Digital Health Conference
Antal sider5
ForlagAssociation for Computing Machinery
Publikationsdato2016
Sider157-161
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-1-4503-4224-7
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2016
Begivenhed6th International Conference on Digital Health - Montreal, Canada
Varighed: 11 apr. 201613 apr. 2016
Konferencens nummer: 6

Konference

Konference6th International Conference on Digital Health
Nummer6
Land/OmrådeCanada
ByMontreal
Periode11/04/201613/04/2016

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