@InProceedings{mathur-EtAl:2018:SMM4H,
  author    = {Mathur, Puneet  and  Ayyar, Meghna  and  Chopra, Sahil  and  Shahid, Simra  and  Mehnaz, Laiba  and  Shah, Rajiv},
  title     = {Identification of Emergency Blood Donation Request on Twitter},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop SMM4H: The 3rd Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task},
  month     = {October},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Brussels, Belgium},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {27--31},
  abstract  = {Social media-based text mining in healthcare has received special attention in recent times due to the enhanced accessibility of social media sites like Twitter. The increasing trend of spreading important information in distress can help patients reach out to prospective blood donors in a time bound manner. However such manual efforts are mostly inefficient due to the limited network of a user. In a novel step to solve this problem, to classify tweets referring to the necessity of urgent blood donation requirement. Additionally, we also present an automated feature-based SVM classification technique that can help selective EBDR tweets reach relevant personals as well as medical authorities. Our experiments also present a quantitative evidence that linguistic along with handcrafted heuristics can act as the most representative set of signals this task with an accuracy of 97.89%.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-5907}
}