Fine-tuning Transformers for Identifying Self-Reporting Potential Cases and Symptoms of COVID-19 in Tweets

Max Fleming, Priyanka Dondeti, Caitlin Dreisbach, Adam Poliak


Abstract
We describe our straight-forward approach for Tasks 5 and 6 of 2021 Social Media Min- ing for Health Applications (SMM4H) shared tasks. Our system is based on fine-tuning Dis- tillBERT on each task, as well as first fine- tuning the model on the other task. In this paper, we additionally explore how much fine- tuning is necessary for accurately classifying tweets as containing self-reported COVID-19 symptoms (Task 5) or whether a tweet related to COVID-19 is self-reporting, non-personal reporting, or a literature/news mention of the virus (Task 6).
Anthology ID:
2021.smm4h-1.28
Volume:
Proceedings of the Sixth Social Media Mining for Health (#SMM4H) Workshop and Shared Task
Month:
June
Year:
2021
Address:
Mexico City, Mexico
Editors:
Arjun Magge, Ari Klein, Antonio Miranda-Escalada, Mohammed Ali Al-garadi, Ilseyar Alimova, Zulfat Miftahutdinov, Eulalia Farre-Maduell, Salvador Lima Lopez, Ivan Flores, Karen O'Connor, Davy Weissenbacher, Elena Tutubalina, Abeed Sarker, Juan M Banda, Martin Krallinger, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
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SMM4H
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
131–134
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.smm4h-1.28
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.smm4h-1.28
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Max Fleming, Priyanka Dondeti, Caitlin Dreisbach, and Adam Poliak. 2021. Fine-tuning Transformers for Identifying Self-Reporting Potential Cases and Symptoms of COVID-19 in Tweets. In Proceedings of the Sixth Social Media Mining for Health (#SMM4H) Workshop and Shared Task, pages 131–134, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Fine-tuning Transformers for Identifying Self-Reporting Potential Cases and Symptoms of COVID-19 in Tweets (Fleming et al., SMM4H 2021)
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