'Watch the Flu': A Tweet Monitoring Tool for Epidemic Intelligence of Influenza in Australia
Abstract
‘Watch The Flu’ is a tool that monitors tweets posted in Australia for symptoms of influenza. The tool is a unique combination of two areas of artificial intelligence: natural language processing and time series monitoring, in order to assist public health surveillance. Using a real-time data pipeline, it deploys a web-based dashboard for visual analysis, and sends out emails to a set of users when an outbreak is detected. We expect that the tool will assist public health experts with their decision-making for disease outbreaks, by providing them insights from social media.
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Jin et al. "'Watch the Flu': A Tweet Monitoring Tool for Epidemic Intelligence of Influenza in Australia." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020. doi:10.1609/AAAI.V34I09.7095Markdown
[Jin et al. "'Watch the Flu': A Tweet Monitoring Tool for Epidemic Intelligence of Influenza in Australia." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2020/jin2020aaai-watch/) doi:10.1609/AAAI.V34I09.7095BibTeX
@inproceedings{jin2020aaai-watch,
title = {{'Watch the Flu': A Tweet Monitoring Tool for Epidemic Intelligence of Influenza in Australia}},
author = {Jin, Brian and Joshi, Aditya and Sparks, Ross and Wan, Stephen and Paris, Cécile and MacIntyre, C. Raina},
booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2020},
pages = {13616-13617},
doi = {10.1609/AAAI.V34I09.7095},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2020/jin2020aaai-watch/}
}