no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2017 • Abeed Sarker, Graciela Gonzalez
We present a simple supervised text classification system that combines sparse and dense vector representations of words, and generalized representations of words via clusters.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Ari Klein, Abeed Sarker, Masoud Rouhizadeh, Karen O{'}Connor, Graciela Gonzalez
Social media sites (e. g., Twitter) have been used for surveillance of drug safety at the population level, but studies that focus on the effects of medications on specific sets of individuals have had to rely on other sources of data.
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2017 • Pramod Bharadwaj Chandrashekar, Arjun Magge, Abeed Sarker, Graciela Gonzalez
We hypothesize that we can use social media to identify cohorts of pregnant women and follow them over time to analyze crucial health-related information.
no code implementations • WS 2016 • Abeed Sarker, Graciela Gonzalez
In this paper, we discuss the preparation of these guidelines, outline the data sets prepared, and present an overview of our state-of-the-art systems for data collection, supervised classification, and information extraction.
no code implementations • 8 Oct 2016 • Abbas Chokor, Abeed Sarker, Graciela Gonzalez
Adverse reactions caused by drugs following their release into the market are among the leading causes of death in many countries.