Monge: Geographic Monitor of Diseases

Monge is a prototype of a geographic monitor of diseases, based on tweets. After the recovering phase of tweets, located in different Spanish cities, these tweets are processed and filtered with techniques and tools of Human Language Technologies. Tweets are filtered with three criteria: location, l...

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Published in:Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 2018-09, Vol.61, p.193
Main Authors: Jiménez-Zafra, Salud María, Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam, García-Cumbreras, Miguel Ángel, Molina-González, María Dolores, Ureña López, L. Alfonso, Martín-Valdivia, M. Teresa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asthma
Catalan language
Computer mediated communication
Disease
Disease control
Epidemics
Language
Natural language processing
Prototypes
Real time
Social networks
Spanish language
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Summary:Monge is a prototype of a geographic monitor of diseases, based on tweets. After the recovering phase of tweets, located in different Spanish cities, these tweets are processed and filtered with techniques and tools of Human Language Technologies. Tweets are filtered with three criteria: location, language (Spanish and Catalan) and bag of words of diseases (generated using synonyms of WordReference and embeddings). The processed information is presented in an interactive way allowing to predict possible epidemic outbreaks of different diseases (e.g. u, asthma). This demo could be very useful because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention take between 1-2 weeks from the moment the patient is diagnosed until the data is available, while with this prototype a real-time monitoring of diseases is offered.
ISSN:1135-5948
1989-7553
DOI:10.26342/2018-61-30