TY - JOUR AU - Jonnalagadda, Siddhartha AU - Peeler, Ryan AU - Topham, Philip PY - 2012 DA - 2012/03/15 TI - Discovering opinion leaders for medical topics using news articles JO - Journal of Biomedical Semantics SP - 2 VL - 3 IS - 1 AB - Rapid identification of subject experts for medical topics helps in improving the implementation of discoveries by speeding the time to market drugs and aiding in clinical trial recruitment, etc. Identifying such people who influence opinion through social network analysis is gaining prominence. In this work, we explore how to combine named entity recognition from unstructured news articles with social network analysis to discover opinion leaders for a given medical topic. SN - 2041-1480 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-3-2 DO - 10.1186/2041-1480-3-2 ID - Jonnalagadda2012 ER -