MIT Press / Twitter / Google / considered using Twitter / /
Country
Jordan / United States / / /
Event
Natural Disaster / /
Facility
Computer Science Johns Hopkins University / /
IndustryTerm
influenza epidemics using search engine query data / web-based tool / internet searches / social networking websites / web access logs / web-scraped keyphrase lists / Web queries / search query logs / real-time surveillance / sentinel physician networks / social web / social networks / Web data / /
Organization
MIT / Johns Hopkins University / National Academy of Sciences / UK’s Health Protection Agency / Syndromic Surveillance One mission / Center of Excellence Department / US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / /
Person
Isabell M. Welpe / Junlan Feng / Victor Lavrenko / Ed Quincey / Roxana Girju / Yutaka Matsuo / Bryan R. Routledge / Alain-Jacques Valleron / Padhraic Smyth / Nello Cristianini / Vasileios Lampos / Colin Cherry / Camille Pelat / Jacob Eisenstein / Gustaf Rydevik / Mark Dredze / Mark Steyvers / Bill Dolan / Andranik Tumasjan / David Yarowsky / Anette Hulth / Abhishek Shreevats / Makoto Okazaki / Ramnath Balasubramanyan / Miles Osborne / Annika Linde / Antoine Flahault / Takeshi Sakaki / Kristina Lerman / Thorsten Joachims / Ewan Klein / Manaswi Gupta / Noah A. Smith / Chris Callison-Burch / Chaitanya Chemudugunta / Michael J. Paul / Connor / Aron Culotta / Patty Kostkova / Timm O. Sprenger / Joshua Ritterman / Rumi Ghosh / Avner Bar-Hen / Eric P. Xing / Chapman / Philipp G. Sandner / Delip Rao / Alan Ritter / Luciano Barbosa / /
Position
Prime Minister / Model for Ailments / physician / RT / latent variable model for geographic lexical variation / model for tagging diseases and symptoms / dentist / general public health information / twodimensional topic-aspect model for discovering multifaceted topics / conversation+topic model / topic aspect model / /
Product
benadryl / zyrtec / tylenol / claritin / /
ProgrammingLanguage
php / /
ProvinceOrState
New York / /
PublishedMedium
Machine Learning / Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / PLoS ONE / Journal of Machine Learning Research / /
Technology
stochastic EM algorithm / search engine / Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing / /
A Model for Mining Public Health Topics from Twitter Michael J. Paul and Mark Dredze Human Language Technology Center of Excellence Department of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University {mpaul,mdredze}@cs.jhu.edu