title: Using term frequency to identify trends in the media's coverage of health.
abstract: This poster describes a method of analyzing news reports to detect emerging trends in the media's coverage of health. The method examines term frequency and term usage in overall and health-specific news coverage. Term frequency calculation and analysis algorithms have been implemented in SalientNews, a news aggregation and analysis system. By using term frequency, SalientNews is now able to assist in the identification and analysis of emerging trends in the media's coverage of health.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Delano J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: McFarlane
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kukafka
mesh_terms: D006262:Health; D008402:Mass Media / Q000639:trends*; D009626:Terminology as Topic