Automatic Classification of Tweets Mentioning a Medication Using Pre-trained Sentence Encoders

Laiba Mehnaz


Abstract
This paper describes our submission to the 5th edition of the Social Media Mining for Health Applications (SMM4H) shared task 1. Task 1 aims at the automatic classification of tweets that mention a medication or a dietary supplement. This task is specifically challenging due to its highly imbalanced dataset, with only 0.2% of the tweets mentioning a drug. For our submission, we particularly focused on several pretrained encoders for text classification. We achieve an F1 score of 0.75 for the positive class on the test set.
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2020.smm4h-1.27
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Proceedings of the Fifth Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task
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December
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2020
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Barcelona, Spain (Online)
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Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Ari Z. Klein, Ivan Flores, Davy Weissenbacher, Arjun Magge, Karen O'Connor, Abeed Sarker, Anne-Lyse Minard, Elena Tutubalina, Zulfat Miftahutdinov, Ilseyar Alimova
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SMM4H
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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150–152
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Laiba Mehnaz. 2020. Automatic Classification of Tweets Mentioning a Medication Using Pre-trained Sentence Encoders. In Proceedings of the Fifth Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task, pages 150–152, Barcelona, Spain (Online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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