PHM2017 is a new dataset consisting of 7,192 English tweets across six diseases and conditions: Alzheimer’s Disease, heart attack (any severity), Parkinson’s disease, cancer (any type), Depression (any severity), and Stroke. The Twitter search API was used to retrieve the data using the colloquial disease names as search keywords, with the expectation of retrieving a high-recall, low precision dataset. After removing the re-tweets and replies, the tweets were manually annotated. The labels are:
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