Shot Or Not: Comparison of NLP Approaches for Vaccination Behaviour Detection

Aditya Joshi, Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, Cécile Paris, C Raina MacIntyre


Abstract
Vaccination behaviour detection deals with predicting whether or not a person received/was about to receive a vaccine. We present our submission for vaccination behaviour detection shared task at the SMM4H workshop. Our findings are based on three prevalent text classification approaches: rule-based, statistical and deep learning-based. Our final submissions are: (1) an ensemble of statistical classifiers with task-specific features derived using lexicons, language processing tools and word embeddings; and, (2) a LSTM classifier with pre-trained language models.
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W18-5911
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Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop SMM4H: The 3rd Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task
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October
Year:
2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Davy Weissenbacher, Abeed Sarker, Michael Paul
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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43–47
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-5911
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-5911
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Aditya Joshi, Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, Cécile Paris, and C Raina MacIntyre. 2018. Shot Or Not: Comparison of NLP Approaches for Vaccination Behaviour Detection. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop SMM4H: The 3rd Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task, pages 43–47, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Shot Or Not: Comparison of NLP Approaches for Vaccination Behaviour Detection (Joshi et al., EMNLP 2018)
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