LHS712NV at #SMM4H 2024 Task 4: Using BERT to classify Reddit posts on non-medical substance use

Valeria Fraga, Neha Nair, Dalton Simancek, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran


Abstract
This paper summarizes our participation in the Shared Task 4 of #SMM4H 2024. Task 4 was a named entity recognition (NER) task identifying clinical and social impacts of non-medical substance use in English Reddit posts. We employed the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model to complete this task. Our team achieved an F1-score of 0.892 on a validation set and a relaxed F1-score of 0.191 on the test set.
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2024.smm4h-1.34
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Proceedings of The 9th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H 2024) Workshop and Shared Tasks
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Dongfang Xu, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
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SMM4H | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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146–148
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Valeria Fraga, Neha Nair, Dalton Simancek, and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran. 2024. LHS712NV at #SMM4H 2024 Task 4: Using BERT to classify Reddit posts on non-medical substance use. In Proceedings of The 9th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H 2024) Workshop and Shared Tasks, pages 146–148, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LHS712NV at #SMM4H 2024 Task 4: Using BERT to classify Reddit posts on non-medical substance use (Fraga et al., SMM4H-WS 2024)
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