Eliciting Disease Data from Wikipedia Articles
Authors | Geoffrey Fairchild Lalindra De Silva Sara Y. Del Valle Alberto Maria Segre |
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Publication date | 2016 |
DOI | 10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6526 |
Links | Original Preprint |
Eliciting Disease Data from Wikipedia Articles - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2016, written by Geoffrey Fairchild, Lalindra De Silva, Sara Y. Del Valle and Alberto Maria Segre.
Overview
Traditional disease surveillance systems suffer from several disadvantages, including reporting lags and antiquated technology, that have caused a movement towards internet-based disease surveillance systems. This study presents the use of Wikipedia article content in this sphere. Authors demonstrate how a named-entity recognizer can be trained to tag case, death, and hospitalization counts in the article text. Authors also show that there are detailed time series data that are consistently updated that closely align with ground truth data. Authors argue that Wikipedia can be used to create the first community-driven open-source emerging disease detection, monitoring, and repository system.
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Fairchild, Geoffrey; Silva, Lalindra De; Valle, Sara Y. Del; Segre, Alberto Maria. (2016). "[[Eliciting Disease Data from Wikipedia Articles]]".DOI: 10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6526.
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{{cite journal |last1=Fairchild |first1=Geoffrey |last2=Silva |first2=Lalindra De |last3=Valle |first3=Sara Y. Del |last4=Segre |first4=Alberto Maria |title=Eliciting Disease Data from Wikipedia Articles |date=2016 |doi=10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6526 |url=https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Eliciting_Disease_Data_from_Wikipedia_Articles}}
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Fairchild, Geoffrey; Silva, Lalindra De; Valle, Sara Y. Del; Segre, Alberto Maria. (2016). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Eliciting_Disease_Data_from_Wikipedia_Articles">Eliciting Disease Data from Wikipedia Articles</a>".DOI: 10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6526.
