%0 Conference Paper %1 1225745 %A Yangarber, Roman %A Jokipii, Lauri %A Rauramo, Antti %A Huttunen, Silja %B Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP on Interactive Demonstrations %C Morristown, NJ, USA %D 2005 %I Association for Computational Linguistics %K disease_reports information_extraction %P 22--23 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1225733.1225745 %T Extracting information about outbreaks of infectious epidemics %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1225745 %X 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.

@inproceedings{1225745, abstract = {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.}, added-at = {2009-04-06T12:14:25.000+0200}, address = {Morristown, NJ, USA}, author = {Yangarber, Roman and Jokipii, Lauri and Rauramo, Antti and Huttunen, Silja}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/27a828c24683e7224662ac4005095461f/meco}, booktitle = {Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP on Interactive Demonstrations}, description = {Extracting information about outbreaks of infectious epidemics}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1225733.1225745}, interhash = {f1ca62773cf3b1c9bdb991f8b5f0fc48}, intrahash = {7a828c24683e7224662ac4005095461f}, keywords = {disease_reports information_extraction}, location = {Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada}, pages = {22--23}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, timestamp = {2009-04-06T12:14:26.000+0200}, title = {Extracting information about outbreaks of infectious epidemics}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1225745}, year = 2005 }