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BMC Bioinformatics BioMed Central Research article Open Access Automated vocabulary discovery for geo-parsing online epidemic intelligence 1,2 1 1,2 Mikaela Keller* , Clark C Freifeld and John S Brownstein Address: 1Childrens Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA and 2Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA Email: Mikaela Keller* - mikaela.keller@; Clark C Freifeld - clark.freifeld@; John S Brownstein - john.brownstein@ * Corresponding author Published: 24 November 2009 Received: 3 June 2009 Accepted: 24 November 2009 BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:385 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-385 This article is available from: /1471-2105/10/385 © 2009 Keller et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Automated surveillance of the Internet provides a timely and sensitive method for alerting on global emerging infectious disease threats. HealthMap is part of a new generation of online systems designed to monitor and visualize, on a real-time basis, disease outbreak alerts as reported by online news media and public health sou