Web monitoring of emerging animal infectious diseases integrated in the French Animal Health Epidemic Intelligence System.

ABSTRACT: Since 2013, the French Animal Health Epidemic Intelligence System (in French: Veille Sanitaire Internationale, VSI) has been monitoring signals of the emergence of new and exotic animal infectious diseases worldwide. Once detected, the VSI team verifies the signals and issues early warning reports to French animal health authorities when potential threats to France are detected. To improve detection of signals from online news sources, we designed the Platform for Automated extraction of Disease Information from the web (PADI-web). PADI-web automatically collects, processes and extracts English-language epidemiological information from Google News. The core component of PADI-web is a combined information extraction (IE) method founded on rule-based systems and data mining techniques. The I

SUBMITTER: Arsevska E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6075742 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature