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ArticleCanada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2020

Application of natural language processing algorithms for extracting information from news articles in event-based surveillance.

Victoria Ng, Erin E Rees, Jingcheng Niu, Abdelhamid Zaghool, Homeira Ghiasbeglou, Adrian Verster

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Article in Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Victoria NgNational Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada.
Erin E ReesNational Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada.
Jingcheng NiuDepartment of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
Abdelhamid ZaghoolCentre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health Agency of Canada.
Homeira GhiasbeglouCentre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health Agency of Canada.
Adrian VersterFood Directorate, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The focus of this article is the application of natural language processing (NLP) for information extraction in event-based surveillance (EBS) systems. We describe common information extraction applications from open-source news articles and media sources in EBS systems, methods, value in public health, challenges and emerging developments.

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algorithmsevent-based surveillanceinformation extractionnatural language processingNLPopen-source data

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PMID33382063
PMCPMC7755067

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