Neha Nair


2024

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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
Proceedings of The 9th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H 2024) Workshop and Shared Tasks

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.