Aakarsh Bansal
2026
HALELab-NITK at #SMM4H-HeaRD2026: Inclusion of Feature Engineering for Detection of Patient Metadata in SARS-CoV2 Sequencing Articles
Aakarsh Bansal | Abhishek Srinivas | Sowmya Kamath S.
Proceedings of the 11th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H-HeaRD 2026) Workshop and Shared Tasks
Aakarsh Bansal | Abhishek Srinivas | Sowmya Kamath S.
Proceedings of the 11th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H-HeaRD 2026) Workshop and Shared Tasks
This article presents a system description for our work as part of Task 5 of the SMM4H-HeaRD 2026 workshop. We fine-tune pretrained BERT and BiomedBERT models and further enhance them using custom feature augmentation techniques. Incorporating these engineered features results in improved performance, with the best model achieving a validation F1 score of 0.8419 and an evaluation phase F1 score of 0.753.