Dasun Athukoralage


2024

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LT4SG@SMM4H’24: Tweets Classification for Digital Epidemiology of Childhood Health Outcomes Using Pre-Trained Language Models
Dasun Athukoralage | Thushari Atapattu | Menasha Thilakaratne | Katrina Falkner
Proceedings of The 9th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H 2024) Workshop and Shared Tasks

This paper presents our approaches for the SMM4H’24 Shared Task 5 on the binary classification of English tweets reporting children’s medical disorders. Our first approach involves fine-tuning a single RoBERTa-large model, while the second approach entails ensembling the results of three fine-tuned BERTweet-large models. We demonstrate that although both approaches exhibit identical performance on validation data, the BERTweet-large ensemble excels on test data. Our best-performing system achieves an F1-score of 0.938 on test data, outperforming the benchmark classifier by 1.18%.