Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases
VLDB '94 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
Pfp: parallel fp-growth for query recommendation
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Recommender systems
Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Short text classification in twitter to improve information filtering
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Towards detecting influenza epidemics by analyzing Twitter messages
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Media Analytics
A Distributed Platform for Global-Scale Agent-Based Models of Disease Transmission
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
User oriented tweet ranking: a filtering approach to microblogs
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Twitter catches the flu: detecting influenza epidemics using Twitter
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Towards personalized learning to rank for epidemic intelligence based on social media streams
Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
"I can't get no sleep": discussing #insomnia on twitter
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Nowcasting Events from the Social Web with Statistical Learning
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
To follow or not to follow: a feature evaluation
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
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Traditional public health surveillance requires regular clinical reports and considerable effort by health professionals to analyze data. Therefore, a low cost alternative is of great practical use. As a platform used by over 500 million users worldwide to publish their ideas about many topics, including health conditions, Twitter provides researchers the freshest source of public health conditions on a global scale. We propose a framework for tracking public health condition trends via Twitter. The basic idea is to use frequent term sets from highly purified health-related tweets as queries into a Wikipedia article index -- treating the retrieval of medically-related articles as an indicator of a health-related condition. By observing fluctuations in frequent term sets and in turn medically-related articles over a series of time slices of tweets, we detect shifts in public health conditions and concerns over time. Compared to existing approaches, our framework provides a general a priori identification of emerging public health conditions rather than a specific illness (e.g., influenza) as is commonly done.