Social Media Analytics for Smart Health

This special section of "Trends & Controversies" focuses on social media analytics for smart health. The introduction, called "Social Media Analytics for Smart Health," is provided by Ahmed Abbasi and Donald Adjeroh. Then Mark Dredze and Michael J. Paul have written "Natural Language Processing for Health and Social Media." Next, Fatemeh "Mariam" Zahedi, Huimin Zhao, Nitin Walia, Hemant Jain, Patrick Sanvanson, and Reza Shaker discuss "Treating Patients Real Avatars in the Virtual Medical Office." The fourth selection, by Marco D. Huesch, is "Social Media versus Privacy and Credibility," The last piece, written by Donald Adjeroh, Richard Beal, Ahmed Abbasi, Wanhong Zheng, Marie Abate, and Arun Ross, is "Signal Fusion for Social Media Analysis of Adverse Drug Events."