Here we provide supplementary material for the paper:
Bin Zou, Vasileios Lampos and Ingemar J. Cox (2018). Multi-Task Learning for Improving Disease Modeling from Web Search. The Web Conference '18 (Lyon, France).
Extensive list of queries
Lists all the search queries considered in our experiments together with their similarity score to the specified flu context (see Section 3.1 of the paper for more information).
Table 1 expanded
Presents an expanded version of Table 1 in our paper, where we show detailed performance results for all 10 US regions during the 4 test periods, using L = 1 year of training data.