Extracting information about outbreaks of infectious epidemics
Roman Yangarber, Lauri Jokipii, Antti Rauramo, Silja Huttunen · 2005
This work demonstrates the ProMED-PLUS Epidemiological Fact Base.The facts are automatically extracted from plain-text reports about outbreaks of infectious epidemics around the world.The system collects new reports, extracts new facts, and updates the database, in real time.The extracted database is available on-line through a Web server.