Because this paper is
concerned with establishing feasibility, we focus on the highest
scores. These are encouraging: in the case of influenza, both
Japan/Thailand and Thailand/United States are promising. That
is, it seems plausible that careful source model selection and
training techniques may yield useful models in contexts where no
training data are available (e.g., official data are unavailable or
unreliable). These early results suggest that research to quantitatively
test methods for translating models from one diseaselocation
context to another should be pursued.