How social media will change public health

Mark Dredze

doi:10.1109/MIS.2012.76

How social media will change public health

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Abstract

Recent work in machine learning and natural language processing has studied the health content of tweets and demonstrated the potential for extracting useful public health information from their aggrega-tion. This article examines the types of health topics discussed on Twitter, and how tweets can both augment existing public health capabilities and enable new ones. The author also discusses key chal-lenges that researchers must address to deliver high-quality tools to the public health community.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	6285937
Pages (from-to)	81-84
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Intelligent Systems
Volume	27
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2012.76
State	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

health
machine learning
natural language processing
social media
twitter

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Artificial Intelligence

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