SmokEng: Towards Fine-grained Classification of Tobacco-related Social Media Text

Kartikey Pant, Venkata Himakar Yanamandra, Alok Debnath, Radhika Mamidi


Abstract
Contemporary datasets on tobacco consumption focus on one of two topics, either public health mentions and disease surveillance, or sentiment analysis on topical tobacco products and services. However, two primary considerations are not accounted for, the language of the demographic affected and a combination of the topics mentioned above in a fine-grained classification mechanism. In this paper, we create a dataset of 3144 tweets, which are selected based on the presence of colloquial slang related to smoking and analyze it based on the semantics of the tweet. Each class is created and annotated based on the content of the tweets such that further hierarchical methods can be easily applied. Further, we prove the efficacy of standard text classification methods on this dataset, by designing experiments which do both binary as well as multi-class classification. Our experiments tackle the identification of either a specific topic (such as tobacco product promotion), a general mention (cigarettes and related products) or a more fine-grained classification. This methodology paves the way for further analysis, such as understanding sentiment or style, which makes this dataset a vital contribution to both disease surveillance and tobacco use research.
Anthology ID:
D19-5524
Volume:
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019)
Month:
November
Year:
2019
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Hong Kong, China
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WNUT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
181–190
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D19-5524
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-5524
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Kartikey Pant, Venkata Himakar Yanamandra, Alok Debnath, and Radhika Mamidi. 2019. SmokEng: Towards Fine-grained Classification of Tobacco-related Social Media Text. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019), pages 181–190, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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SmokEng: Towards Fine-grained Classification of Tobacco-related Social Media Text (Pant et al., WNUT 2019)
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Code
 kartikeypant/smokeng-tobacco-classification
Data
SmokEng