Lecture Series

”Detecting public health rumours from news text”

Mike Conway, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Fellow

Friday, October 30, 2009
11:00 AM - noon
Parkvale Building (200 Meyran Avenue)
Classroom M-184 (on the mezzanine level), or via video conference at the UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Room 341

Abstract: In this talk, I will provide a brief overview of BioCaster, an ontology driven surveillance system that monitors multi-lingual online news sources for communicable disease outbreaks. Additionally, I will describe recent work on designing a set of disease outbreak report annotation guidelines for news texts, and the construction of an annotated corpus based on those guidelines.

For more information: www.dbmi.pitt.edu or 412.647.7113