Title
Building Intelligent Indicators to Detect Dengue Epidemics in Brazil using Social Networks
Date Issued
01 June 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of São Paulo
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The area of Text Mining has an increasing growing with the support of Machine Learning techniques. Nowadays, the quantity of available data is bigger than the last years. Among the various sources of information, social networks have been highlighted, since they can be used in the extraction of relevant information using posts, tweets and comments as basis. In this work, the social network used is Twitter. Many works explores Twitter platform to get tweets and analyze them to detect social events. This identification is possible due to the users are considered sensors. Consequently, they express their feelings and considerations from external stimuli. The combination of the information and machine learning algorithms makes possible the identification and the monitoring interest events. This work analyzes tweets from Brazil to detect dengue in such country. The results show the utility of the proposal to recognize dengue epidemics in the Brazilian territory.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Epidemiología
Matemáticas aplicadas
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85070936087
ISBN
9781728116143
ISBN of the container
978-172811614-3
Conference
2019 IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications in Computational Intelligence, ColCACI 2019 - Proceedings
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