Construction of a Personal Experience Tweet Corpus for Health Surveillance

@inproceedings{Jiang2016ConstructionOA,
  title={Construction of a Personal Experience Tweet Corpus for Health Surveillance},
  author={Keyuan Jiang and Ricardo A. Calix and Matrika Gupta},
  booktitle={BioNLP@ACL},
  year={2016}
}
Studies have shown that Twitter can be used for health surveillance, and personal experience tweets (PETs) are an important source of information for health surveillance. To mine Twitter data requires a relatively balanced corpus and it is challenging to construct such a corpus due to the labor-intensive annotation tasks of large data sets. We developed a bootstrap method of finding PETs with the use of the machine learning-based filter. Through a few iterations, our approach can efficiently… 
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