Application of natural language processing algorithms for extracting information from news articles in event-based surveillance
Victoria Ng, Erin E. Rees, Jingcheng Niu, Abdelhamid Zaghlool · Canada Communicable Disease Report · 2020
The focus of this article is the application of natural language processing (NLP) for information extraction in event-based surveillance (EBS) systems.We describe common information extraction applications from open-source news articles and media sources in EBS systems, methods, value in public health, challenges and emerging developments.