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Caregiving is the act of providing assistance to an individual unable to perfom some daily living activities. Caregiving can be either paid or unpaid. An informal caregiver is an unpaid caregiver to an older, sick, or disabled family member or friend on a daily basis. Informal caregiving is associated with increased physical, mental, and emotional stressors contributing to poor health outcomes, caregiver...
Seasonal influenza is a contagious respiratory illness that can cause various complications, worsen chronic illnesses, and sometimes lead to deaths. During 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, up to 203,000 deaths occurred worldwide. Early detection and prediction of disease outbreak is critical because it can provide more time to prepare a response and significantly reduce the impact caused by a pandemic. The...
An informal caregiver is a family member, friend, or neighbor who provides assistance to an older adult. Informal caregiving is associated with increased physical, mental, and emotional stressor contributing to poor health outcomes, and caregiver burnout. This project focuses on tracking and analyzing informal caregivers in Twitter.
Allergies are one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide. One in five Americans suffer from either allergy or asthma symptoms. With the prevalence of social media, people sharing experiences and opinions on personal health symptoms and concerns on social media are increasing. Mining those publicly available health related data potentially provides valuable healthcare insights. In this paper,...
We focus on the problem of offline user location estimation using online information, particularly for the application of TV segment advertising. Unlike previous works, the proposed method does not assume GPS information, but works with loosely structured information such as English location description. We propose to use a neural language model to capture the semantic similarity among the location...
A multilingual sentiment identification system (MuSES) implements three different sentiment identification algorithms. The first algorithm augments previous compositional semantic rules by adding rules specific to social media. The second algorithm defines a scoring function that measures the degree of a sentiment, instead of simply classifying a sentiment into binary polarities. All such scores are...
With the increasing popularity of microblogging sites, we are in the era of information explosion. As of June 2011, about 200 million tweets are being generated everyday. Although Twitter provides a list of most popular topics people tweet about known as Trending Topics in real time, it is often hard to understand what these trending topics are about. Therefore, it is important and necessary to classify...
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