Discovering foodborne illness in online restaurant reviews

ConclusionsOur system has been instrumental in the identification of 10 outbreaks and 8523 complaints of foodborne illness associated with New York City restaurants since July 2012. Our evaluation has identified strong classifiers for both tasks, whose deployment will allow DOHMH epidemiologists to more effectively monitor Yelp for foodborne illness investigations.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research