Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Geolocation-Centric Monitoring and Characterization of Opioid-Related Social Media Chatter.

Journal: JAMA network open
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Abstract

IMPORTANCE: Automatic curation of consumer-generated, opioid-related social media big data may enable real-time monitoring of the opioid epidemic in the United States.

Authors

  • Abeed Sarker
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
  • Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
    Health Language Processing Center, Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
  • Yucheng Ruan
    School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
  • Jeanmarie Perrone
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.