Towards cross-lingual alerting for bursty epidemic events
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- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Biomedical Semantics
- Vol. 2 (Suppl 5), S10
- https://doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-2-s5-s10
Abstract
Online news reports are increasingly becoming a source for event-based early warning systems that detect natural disasters. Harnessing the massive volume of information available from multilingual newswire presents as many challanges as opportunities due to the patterns of reporting complex spatio-temporal events.Keywords
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