CUET_DiagNLP at #SMM4H-HeaRD 2026: Per-Axis TNM Staging from Pathology Reports and Opioid Impact Span Detection from Social Media

Shuva Dey, Priyangshu Barua, Mohammad Ashfak Habib


Abstract
In this paper, we describe systems for two #SMM4H-HeaRD 2026 shared tasks. Task 6 asks for per-axis TNM cancer staging from free-text TCGA pathology reports under severe label imbalance and long-document constraints. We fine-tune GatorTron-base separately on each axis using Focal loss with class weights and a pooled [CLS]–mean representation, reaching macro F1 of 0.700 (T), 0.774 (N), and 0.640 (M) on test set 2 against a baseline of 0.454, 0.591, and 0.554 respectively. Task 7 asks for span-level detection of opioid-related ClinicalImpacts and SocialImpacts in first-person Reddit posts. We combine DeBERTa-large and PubMedBERT (two seeds each) in a uniform-weight ensemble with boundary-aware loss, entity-replacement augmentation, and a first-person post filter, achieving strict F1 of 0.51 and relaxed F1 of 0.60, above both the task mean (0.46 / 0.55) and median (0.48 / 0.58).
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2026.smm4h-1.30
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Proceedings of the 11th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H-HeaRD 2026) Workshop and Shared Tasks
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July
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2026
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San Diego, United States
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Guillermo Lopez-Garcia, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
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SMM4H | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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182–186
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Shuva Dey, Priyangshu Barua, and Mohammad Ashfak Habib. 2026. CUET_DiagNLP at #SMM4H-HeaRD 2026: Per-Axis TNM Staging from Pathology Reports and Opioid Impact Span Detection from Social Media. In Proceedings of the 11th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H-HeaRD 2026) Workshop and Shared Tasks, pages 182–186, San Diego, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CUET_DiagNLP at #SMM4H-HeaRD 2026: Per-Axis TNM Staging from Pathology Reports and Opioid Impact Span Detection from Social Media (Dey et al., SMM4H 2026)
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