Automatic Identification of Drugs and Adverse Drug Reaction Related Tweets

Segun Taofeek Aroyehun, Alexander Gelbukh


Abstract
We describe our submissions to the Third Social Media Mining for Health Applications Shared Task. We participated in two tasks (tasks 1 and 3). For both tasks, we experimented with a traditional machine learning model (Naive Bayes Support Vector Machine (NBSVM)), deep learning models (Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and Bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM)), and the combination of deep learning model with SVM. We observed that the NBSVM reaches superior performance on both tasks on our development split of the training data sets. Official result for task 1 based on the blind evaluation data shows that the predictions of the NBSVM achieved our team’s best F-score of 0.910 which is above the average score received by all submissions to the task. On task 3, the combination of of BiLSTM and SVM gives our best F-score for the positive class of 0.394.
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W18-5915
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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
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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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54–55
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-5915
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10.18653/v1/W18-5915
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Segun Taofeek Aroyehun and Alexander Gelbukh. 2018. Automatic Identification of Drugs and Adverse Drug Reaction Related Tweets. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop SMM4H: The 3rd Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task, pages 54–55, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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