The use of electronic media for the detection and monitoring of animal disease outbreaks is crucial for disease surveillance and early warning systems. Animal health specialists regularly query web pages using various formulations to obtain up-to-date news on disease outbreaks. This task, however, is often manual and time-consuming. Visualization techniques can nevertheless facilitate their web searches, compared to traditional searches. This article presents EpidVis, a visual web query tool designed for experts in animal health, conducting epidemic intelligence activities from news sources on the Internet. It consists of several views that help the domain experts efficiently build and launch queries, as well as visualize the results. Moreover, it supports external information integration to help domain experts enrich their knowledge and adapt their queries. EpidVis was assessed considering usability (user study) and usefulness for experts (case study). The results show that our tool helps domain experts in their daily surveillance tasks, allowing them to extract in timely manner accurate information on disease outbreaks from the web.

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EpidVis：用于动物流行病学监测的可视化网络查询工具

使用电子媒体检测和监测动物疾病爆发对于疾病监测和预警系统至关重要。动物健康专家定期查询使用各种配方的网页，以获取有关疾病爆发的最新消息。然而，这项任务通常是手动且耗时的。然而，与传统搜索相比，可视化技术可以促进他们的网络搜索。本文介绍了 EpidVis，这是一种可视化网络查询工具，专为动物健康专家设计，可从 Internet 上的新闻来源开展流行病情报活动。它由多个视图组成，可帮助领域专家有效地构建和启动查询，以及可视化结果。而且，它支持外部信息集成，帮助领域专家丰富他们的知识并调整他们的查询。EpidVis 的评估考虑了可用性（用户研究）和专家的有用性（案例研究）。结果表明，我们的工具可以帮助领域专家完成日常监控任务，使他们能够及时从网络上提取有关疾病爆发的准确信息。