Recognizing Mentions of Adverse Drug Reaction in Social Media Using Knowledge-Infused Recurrent Models

Gabriel Stanovsky, Daniel Gruhl, Pablo Mendes


Abstract
Recognizing mentions of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) in social media is challenging: ADR mentions are context-dependent and include long, varied and unconventional descriptions as compared to more formal medical symptom terminology. We use the CADEC corpus to train a recurrent neural network (RNN) transducer, integrated with knowledge graph embeddings of DBpedia, and show the resulting model to be highly accurate (93.4 F1). Furthermore, even when lacking high quality expert annotations, we show that by employing an active learning technique and using purpose built annotation tools, we can train the RNN to perform well (83.9 F1).
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E17-1014
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Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers
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April
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2017
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Valencia, Spain
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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142–151
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Gabriel Stanovsky, Daniel Gruhl, and Pablo Mendes. 2017. Recognizing Mentions of Adverse Drug Reaction in Social Media Using Knowledge-Infused Recurrent Models. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers, pages 142–151, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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