@InProceedings{benton-coppersmith-dredze:2017:EthNLP,
  author    = {Benton, Adrian  and  Coppersmith, Glen  and  Dredze, Mark},
  title     = {Ethical Research Protocols for Social Media Health Research},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing},
  month     = {April},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {94--102},
  abstract  = {Social media have transformed data-driven research in political science, the
	social sciences, health, and medicine. Since health research often touches on
	sensitive topics that relate to ethics of treatment and patient privacy,
	similar ethical considerations should be acknowledged when using social media
	data in health research.  While much has been said regarding the ethical
	considerations of social media research, health research leads to an additional
	set of concerns.  We provide practical suggestions in the form of guidelines
	for researchers working with social media data in health research.  These
	guidelines can inform an IRB proposal for researchers new to social media
	health research.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1612}
}