Patricia Buffini


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2023

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Medical Concept Mention Identification in Social Media Posts Using a Small Number of Sample References
Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana | Sneha Rautmare | Meegan Gower | Nishtha Jain | Maja Popović | Patricia Buffini | John Kelleher
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

Identification of mentions of medical concepts in social media text can provide useful information for caseload prediction of diseases like Covid-19 and Measles. We propose a simple model for the automatic identification of the medical concept mentions in the social media text. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed model on Twitter, Reddit, and News/Media datasets.