@inproceedings{kumar-etal-2021-nlp,
    title = "{NLP}@{NISER}: Classification of {COVID}19 tweets containing symptoms",
    author = "Kumar, Deepak  and
      Kumar, Nalin  and
      Mishra, Subhankar",
    editor = "Magge, Arjun  and
      Klein, Ari  and
      Miranda-Escalada, Antonio  and
      Al-garadi, Mohammed Ali  and
      Alimova, Ilseyar  and
      Miftahutdinov, Zulfat  and
      Farre-Maduell, Eulalia  and
      Lopez, Salvador Lima  and
      Flores, Ivan  and
      O'Connor, Karen  and
      Weissenbacher, Davy  and
      Tutubalina, Elena  and
      Sarker, Abeed  and
      Banda, Juan M  and
      Krallinger, Martin  and
      Gonzalez-Hernandez, Graciela",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Social Media Mining for Health ({\#}SMM4H) Workshop and Shared Task",
    month = jun,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/2021.smm4h-1.19/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.smm4h-1.19",
    pages = "102--104",
    abstract = "In this paper, we describe our approaches for task six of Social Media Mining for Health Applications (SMM4H) shared task in 2021. The task is to classify twitter tweets containing COVID-19 symptoms in three classes (self-reports, non-personal reports {\&} literature/news mentions). We implemented BERT and XLNet for this text classification task. Best result was achieved by XLNet approach, which is F1 score 0.94, precision 0.9448 and recall 0.94448. This is slightly better than the average score, i.e. F1 score 0.93, precision 0.93235 and recall 0.93235."
}