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Published on in Vol 21, No 6 (2019): June

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/12876, first published .
Mining of Textual Health Information from Reddit: Analysis of Chronic Diseases With Extracted Entities and Their Relations

Mining of Textual Health Information from Reddit: Analysis of Chronic Diseases With Extracted Entities and Their Relations

Mining of Textual Health Information from Reddit: Analysis of Chronic Diseases With Extracted Entities and Their Relations

Authors of this article:

Vasiliki Foufi1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Tatsawan Timakum3 Author Orcid Image ;   Christophe Gaudet-Blavignac1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Christian Lovis1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Min Song3 Author Orcid Image
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